bitcoin-cli not working on Ubuntu 12.04 due to glibc 2.17 dependency #7420

issue dlogicman opened this issue on January 26, 2016

dlogicman commented at 1:31 PM on January 26, 2016: none
I tested the 0.12.0rc2 release on my server running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS and got the following error:
```
bitcoin@server:~$ ~bitcoin/bitcoin-0.12.0/bin/bitcoin-cli
/home/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.12.0/bin/bitcoin-cli: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found (required by /home/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.12.0/bin/bitcoin-cli)
```
Ubuntu 12.04 is currently shipped with this glibc version:
```
bitcoin@server:~$ ldd --version
ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.12) 2.15
```
Unfortunately I am not very familiar with linker dependencies to resolve this myself, but this might help:
```
bitcoin@server:~$ objdump -T ~bitcoin/bitcoin-0.12.0/bin/bitcoin-cli |grep GLIBC_2.17
0000000000000000      DF *UND*  0000000000000000  GLIBC_2.17  clock_gettime
```
Ubuntu 12.04 is still actively maintained and I cannot switch to a current Ubuntu release in the near future so I hope this issue can be resolved.

bitcoind seems to be OK, could be started and is running.
theuni commented at 6:19 PM on January 26, 2016: member

Grr, these checks never got added to the buildsystem. That's my fault, doing that now.
jonasschnelli added the label Build system on Jan 26, 2016
jonasschnelli added the label Bug on Jan 26, 2016
theuni referenced this in commit a8ce872118 on Jan 27, 2016
laanwj closed this on Jan 27, 2016
laanwj referenced this in commit aa26ee0101 on Jan 27, 2016
rebroad referenced this in commit 148388901d on Dec 7, 2016
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#7424 Add security/export checks to gitian and fix current failures