Support for Redhat Linux / Rocky Linux

[laurent-martin]

Anyone has successfully used tebako on Rocky Linux 9 ?

I tried on Rocky 9, and got:

$ tebako press --root=$PWD --entry-point=ascli --output=/mnt/w/ascli.exe --Ruby=3.2.4
...
[ 70%] Completed '_zstd'
[ 70%] Built target _zstd
gmake[4]: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
gmake[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/_dwarfs_wr.dir/build.make:86: /home/laurent/.tebako/deps/src/_dwarfs_wr-stamp/_dwarfs_wr-build] Error 2
gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:91: CMakeFiles/_dwarfs_wr.dir/all] Error 2
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:257: CMakeFiles/tebako.dir/rule] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:202: tebako] Error 2
Tebako script failed: 'tebako press' build step failed [104]

I tried the container:

docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/mnt/w ghcr.io/tamatebako/tebako-ubuntu-20.04:latest tebako press --root=/mnt/w --entry-point=ascli --output=/mnt/w/ascli.exe --Ruby=3.2.4

But it does not run:

$ ./ascli.exe
./ascli.exe: /lib64/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required by ./ascli.exe)

[ronaldtse]

@laurent-martin thanks for the report. No I don't think we've tried Tebako on RHEL or Rocky Linux but it's something we can investigate.

@maxirmx could you please help? I believe at RNP we have CentOS/RHEL GHA builds so we can adopt those workflows over here as well.

[maxirmx]

There are two different topics here

• an option to run tebako on RedHat or similar systems (the first failure @laurent-martin mentioned)
• GLIB forward compatibility (the second failure) also here Tebako package build on Ubuntu 20 is not compatible with Ubuntu 22 #98 and here Can we compile metanorma binary with static pthreads metanorma/packed-mn#194

These issues are "orthogonal".
Making Rhel port is possible but it means doing it all the way through - folly with our patches, dwarfs, tebako
I would rather make tebako port to Ubuntu 24, provide container for packaging and the output shall work for Rocky Linux 9. Theoretically ...
It is a matter of week I guess.

@laurent-martin, will it work for you ?

[d4rky-pl]

@maxirmx I found an interesting alternative to what you proposed but it's probably not a viable solution for everyone - I used a modified version of patchelf and ran:

patchelf --remove-needed-version libc.so.6 GLIBC_PRIVATE ht-x86_64-linux
patchelf --remove-needed-version libpthread.so.0 GLIBC_PRIVATE ht-x86_64-linux

So far the binary seems to work on Ubuntu 22 but I didn't stress test it. It could be an option to make things more portable but you're the expert here, feel free to scream at me that this is a horrible hack 😄

[maxirmx]

@maxirmx I found an interesting alternative to what you proposed but it's probably not a viable solution for everyone - I used a modified version of patchelf and ran:

patchelf --remove-needed-version libc.so.6 GLIBC_PRIVATE ht-x86_64-linux
patchelf --remove-needed-version libpthread.so.0 GLIBC_PRIVATE ht-x86_64-linux

So far the binary seems to work on Ubuntu 22 but I didn't stress test it. It could be an option to make things more portable but you're the expert here, feel free to scream at me that this is a horrible hack 😄

I think this is a good idea :)

[ronaldtse]

Will this be an option?

[maxirmx]

Will this be an option?

I think this is a postprocessing option that will make tebako package built with "older" glibc (pre 3.24) to work on newer gnu-linux versions.

For example, make package built on Ubuntu 20 work on Ubuntu 22/24 (or Rocky Linux 9)

I will test it

[maxirmx]

@laurent-martin
The latest Ubuntu container https://github.com/tamatebako/tebako-ci-containers/pkgs/container/tebako-ubuntu-20.04 shall produce correct package that wiill work on Rocky Linux

There are some examples here:
https://github.com/tamatebako/tebako-samples/tree/maxirmx-rocky-linux

[laurent-martin]

Thanks a lot.
I have tested 0.8.6, and now the generated executable works on Rocky 9.

podman run -it --rm -v $PWD:/mnt/w ghcr.io/tamatebako/tebako-ubuntu-20.04:0.8.6 tebako press --root=/mnt/w --entry-point=ascli --output=/mnt/w/ascli.exe --Ruby=3.2.4 --patchelf