Failure building Rust on linux with glibc 2.5

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I am trying to build Rust for RHEL5 (Linux v2.6.18) with GNU C Library stable release version 2.5.

The pre-built bootstrap version of Rust, that is downloaded automatically when running the Rust make, is incompatible with glibc 2.5 -- I get the following error.

x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/rustc: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/rustc) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/rustc: /lib64/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.6' not found (required by x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage0/bin/rustc)

Unfortunately, upgrading glibc is not an option for the target OS

Is there any way for me to build Rust on my platform?

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1 Answers

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You’ll need to build a newer copy of gcc and glibc first. Don’t worry, you can use it only for Rust stuff (stick it in a different directory and add that directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH whenever running Rust things), but it does need some newer stuff.