Release binaries dynamically compiled for NixOS

[namsral]

The acbuild binaries made available on the github release page fail to run:

$ curl -s -L -O https://github.com/appc/acbuild/releases/download/v0.2.1/acbuild.tar.gz
$ tar xzf acbuild.tar.gz 
$ ./acbuild 
-bash: ./acbuild: No such file or directory

The release binaries are dynamically compiled and will only run on Nix unless you symlink the interpreter.

$ file acbuild
acbuild: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /nix/store/npfsi1d9ka8zwnxzn3sr08hbwvpapyk7-glibc-2.21/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped

I think it would be more useful to statically compile the binaries.

[jonboulle]

    /nix/store/npfsi1d9ka8zwnxzn3sr08hbwvpapyk7-glibc-2.21/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000562407f91000)

gross!

It's unlikely we'll be able to fully statically compile since we need DNS (see e.g. rkt/rkt#1380 (comment)), but we should definitely be able to provide a more portable build.

[cgonyeo]

My bad, forgot that nixos will result in binaries like that. I'll rebuild the release on a more normal distro.

On Nov 30, 2015, at 09:42, Jonathan Boulle [email protected] wrote:

/nix/store/npfsi1d9ka8zwnxzn3sr08hbwvpapyk7-glibc-2.21/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000562407f91000)

gross!

It's unlikely we'll be able to fully statically compile since we need DNS (see e.g. rkt/rkt#1380 (comment)), but we should definitely be able to provide a more portable build.

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[cgonyeo]

I just uploaded new binaries (still dynamically linked) that were compiled on an x86_64 machine running arch for the releases. Can you verify that the latest release runs on your system now?

I'll look into statically linking things that aren't related to DNS.

[namsral]

I can confirm the latest release now runs on my system.

[jonboulle]

#86 would mitigate this :-)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Lars Wiegman [email protected]
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I can confirm the latest release now runs on my system.

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