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From https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux is "Homebrew can install its own current versions of glibc and gcc for older distributions of Linux." I'm looking for a bit of clarification on what actually constitutes an "older distribution of Linux." I'm having a doozy of a time trying to reinstall Linuxbrew on an older RHEL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago). Does the older distribution still have to have glibc >= 2.13? RHEL 6.7 can only go up to glibc 2.12, and I'm thinking that this is most probably responsible for the problems I'm having. |
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Hi. 2.13 is the minimum version we support. With 2.12 you will be out of luck. Maybe if you are able to grab and old version of Linuxbrew, but even then, a lot of other things might be broken. Also, we are soon going to migrate to gcc 7 for builds, probably with Ubuntu 18.04, and so we will increase the glibc requirement in 2022. |
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Thanks for the quick reply. |
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I suppose there are certain preliminary binaries that use the system glibc and point to shared objects such as /lib64/libm.so.6 which have to be from glibc >=2.13 for the bootstrap up to using the latest glibc provided by Linuxbrew itself. Right? I'm guessing that it wouldn't suffice to install the latest glibc to a new location, add it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then attempt a Linuxbrew installation. Is this correct? |
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Hi. 2.13 is the minimum version we support. With 2.12 you will be out of luck. Maybe if you are able to grab and old version of Linuxbrew, but even then, a lot of other things might be broken.
Also, we are soon going to migrate to gcc 7 for builds, probably with Ubuntu 18.04, and so we will increase the glibc requirement in 2022.