Hello community,

I try to upgrade my local glibc version, from version 2.31 to 2.34 .
With the follwoing commands I compiled the glibc source code

cd glibc-2.34
mkdir glibc-build
cd glibc-build
../configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libdir=/lib64 --includedir=/usr/include --enable-shared --enable-all-warnings --enable-check-abi --disable-werror --with-headers=/usr/include
make

than I execute "make install" and the installation crashes with the following error (Segmentation fault (core dumped)) :


make[4]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/posix'
make subdir=setjmp -C ../setjmp ..=../ objdir=/root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build -f Makefile -f ../elf/rtld-Rules rtld-all rtld-modules='rtld-setjmp.os rtld-__longjmp.os'
make subdir=signal -C ../signal ..=../ objdir=/root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build -f Makefile -f ../elf/rtld-Rules rtld-all rtld-modules='rtld-sigaction.os rtld-libc_sigaction.os rtld-sigaction.os'
make subdir=string -C ../string ..=../ objdir=/root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build -f Makefile -f ../elf/rtld-Rules rtld-all rtld-modules='rtld-strchr.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strcspn.os rtld-strdup.os rtld-strlen.os rtld-strnlen.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memmove.os rtld-memset.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-memcpy.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-strcmp-sse2.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strcmp-sse2-unaligned.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strcmp-ssse3.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strcmp-avx2.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strncmp-sse2.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-strncmp-ssse3.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-strncmp-sse4_2.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-strncmp-avx2.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-memchr-sse2.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-rawmemchr-sse2.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-memchr-avx2.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-rawmemchr-avx2.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-memcmp-sse2.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memcmp-avx2-movbe.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memcmp-sse4.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memcpy-ssse3.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memmove-ssse3.os rtld-memmove.os rtld-memcpy-ssse3-back.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memmove-ssse3-back.os rtld-memmove.os rtld-memmove-avx512-no-vzeroupper.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-strchr-sse2.os rtld-strchr.os rtld-strchr-avx2.os rtld-strchr.os rtld-strlen-sse2.os rtld-strlen.os rtld-strnlen-sse2.os rtld-strnlen.os rtld-strlen-avx2.os rtld-strlen.os rtld-strnlen-avx2.os rtld-strnlen.os rtld-stpcpy-sse2.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-stpcpy-ssse3.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-stpcpy-sse2-unaligned.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-stpcpy-avx2.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-strchr-sse2-no-bsf.os rtld-strchr.os rtld-memcmp-ssse3.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-strcspn-sse2.os rtld-strcspn.os rtld-strcspn-c.os rtld-strcspn.os rtld-varshift.os rtld-strcspn-c.os rtld-memset-avx512-no-vzeroupper.os rtld-memset.os rtld-memmove-sse2-unaligned-erms.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memmove-avx-unaligned-erms.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memmove-avx512-unaligned-erms.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memset-sse2-unaligned-erms.os rtld-memset.os rtld-memset-avx2-unaligned-erms.os rtld-memset.os rtld-memset-avx512-unaligned-erms.os rtld-memset.os rtld-memchr-avx2-rtm.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-memcmp-avx2-movbe-rtm.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memmove-avx-unaligned-erms-rtm.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memset-avx2-unaligned-erms-rtm.os rtld-memset.os rtld-rawmemchr-avx2-rtm.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-strchr-avx2-rtm.os rtld-strchr.os rtld-strcmp-avx2-rtm.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-stpcpy-avx2-rtm.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-strlen-avx2-rtm.os rtld-strlen.os rtld-strncmp-avx2-rtm.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-strnlen-avx2-rtm.os rtld-strnlen.os rtld-memchr-evex.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-memcmp-evex-movbe.os rtld-memcmp.os rtld-memmove-evex-unaligned-erms.os rtld-mempcpy.os rtld-memset-evex-unaligned-erms.os rtld-memset.os rtld-rawmemchr-evex.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-stpcpy-evex.os rtld-stpcpy.os rtld-strchr-evex.os rtld-strchr.os rtld-strcmp-evex.os rtld-strcmp.os rtld-strlen-evex.os rtld-strlen.os rtld-strncmp-evex.os rtld-strncmp.os rtld-strnlen-evex.os rtld-strnlen.os rtld-memchr-evex-rtm.os rtld-memchr.os rtld-rawmemchr-evex-rtm.os rtld-rawmemchr.os rtld-cacheinfo.os rtld-memcpy-ssse3-back.os'
make[4]: Entering directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/string'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/string'
make subdir=time -C ../time ..=../ objdir=/root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build -f Makefile -f ../elf/rtld-Rules rtld-all rtld-modules='rtld-setitimer.os'
make[4]: Entering directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/time'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/time'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/elf'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34/elf'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build/libc.a /lib64/libc.a
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build/libc_nonshared.a /lib64/libc_nonshared.a
/usr/bin/install -c /root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build/libc.so /lib64/libc.so.6.new
mv -f /lib64/libc.so.6.new /lib64/libc.so.6
gcc -shared -nostdlib -nostartfiles \
-x assembler /dev/null -o /root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build/format.lds.so
make[1]: *** [Makerules:1043: /root/temp/glibc-2.34/glibc-build/format.lds] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/temp/glibc-2.34'
make: *** [Makefile:12: install] Error 2


is it even possible to upgrade the glibc version this way, just replace the libc-2.31.so binray with libc-2.34.so ?

best regards
T. Reineck

Ugrading glibc is a bad idea in general, but especially by just replacing the binary. Why would you do it? What are you trying to achieve? 2.31 is not so old. It's the default glibc version on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

See here, to give you an idea of how many things depend on glibc.

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