[Nix-dev] glibc issues from a proprietary binary distributed as an RPM

[Peter Jones]

Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com> writes:
> On 25 May 2017 at 20:19, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
>> I find myself in the (sickening) position of needing to use a
>> closed-source tool on NixOS.  I have an overlay package that almost
>> works.  After using patchelf, most of the binaries seem to work.  But
>> one of them is being a pain:
>>
>>     JLinkGDBServer: relocation error: JLinkGDBServer: symbol , version
>>     GLIBC_2.2.5 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>>
>> The collective wisdom of the web suggests this might have something to
>> do with the binary using symbols from libc that are not in my version of
>> glibc.  As far as I can tell the company that makes this just has an RPM
>> with no system requirements so I can't tell which glibc I should be
>> using.  Also, strace wasn't much help here either.
>>
>> I would love some help figuring this out.  The derivation that I'm
>> working on can be found here:
>>
>>     https://github.com/pjones/nixpkgs-jlink
>
> I know it's not what you asked, but as a workaround perhaps you can
> use openocd instead?

That's a perfectly reasonable solution.  I'm attempting to go down that
route as well because it would be easier than using J-Link.  But I
thought I would ask here too just in case other tools are a dead end.

Thank you.

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