python module Incompatible with old glibc #155
Description
Describe the issue
Many systems use older glibc, on these we get something like
Python 3.11.13 (main, Aug 28 2025, 15:10:45) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-28)] on linux
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>>> from tesseract_decoder import TesseractSinterDecoder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /home/noajshu/stimenv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/tesseract_decoder.so)
Gemini suggests the following fix:
Use a "Manylinux" Build (If you control the package)
If you are the developer of tesseract_decoder and built this wheel on your personal machine (e.g., a recent Ubuntu or Arch Linux laptop) and then copied it to this server, this error is expected.
To make Python wheels that work on older Linux servers (like RHEL 8), you must build them using the Manylinux standard.
The Fix: Build your wheels inside a specialized Docker container provided by the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
Image to use: quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_x86_64 (compatible with RHEL 8+).
What version of the software are you using?
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How can the issue be reproduced?
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