GLIBC required to run Nargo

[spalladino]

Aim

Compile an Aztec Contract using Nargo on a fresh environment.

Expected Behavior

Running nargo compile downloads a backend and compiles successfully, without needing additional dependencies to be installed.

Bug

Nargo fails with /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.32' not found. This happens on an Ubuntu system.

To Reproduce

No response

Installation Method

Binary

Nargo Version

0.22.0+fe0b9975a28970af915b39f5f338e880577b60f8

Additional Context

I'd expect either noirup to download glibc automatically, or for the bb backend to not depend on dynamically loading glibc, or for the documentation to include it as a requirement.

Would you like to submit a PR for this Issue?

No

Support Needs

No response

[TomAFrench]

This issue was introduced in this PR afaik. I'm going to move this issue onto aztec-packages as it's in reality an issue with the bb build system.

Noir can't and shouldn't guarantee that it will provide a working environment for bb, instead bb should provide an official installation method for prebuilt binaries and test that this works on specified versions of ubuntu, etc.

I'd expect either noirup to download glibc automatically

We shouldn't try to fix this here as it's two hops away from where the requirement for this dynamic library is being introduced so we'll always be chasing future breaking changes in bb. We also don't want to get to the point where we're routinely asking users to reinstall noirup from scratch as that breaks the "just run noirup again" debugging step.

[TomAFrench]

Looks like I can't transfer across orgs so I'm going to close this and reopen an issue over there.

[spalladino]

Thanks @TomAFrench!