Snappy-java-1.1.10.1.jar library (libsnappyjava.so) fails on IBM PowerPC RedHat 8 OS with the error GLIBC_2.32 not found (required by /libsnappyjava.so)

[vineshcpaul]

We use snappy-java-1.1.10.1.jar in one of our application that runs on IBM PowerPC architecture ( RedHat 8.6 OS) and very recently the application started failing with the following error

/lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.32 not found (required by /libsnappyjava.so)

Is it because the PPC64LE version of the shared object is compiled on a machine that has an higher version of GLIBC ( Probably RedHat 9 ) when compared to the same library on x86?

[jenkins@redhat8-builds ppc64le]$ strings org/xerial/snappy/native/Linux/ppc64le/libsnappyjava.so | grep -i glibc
GLIBC_2.17
GLIBC_2.32
GLIBC_2.34
[jenkins@redhat8-builds ppc64le]$ cd ../x86_64/

[jenkins@redhat8-builds- x86_64]$ strings org/xerial/snappy/native/Linux/x86_64/libsnappyjava.so | grep -i glibc
GLIBC_2.3
GLIBC_2.2.5
GLIBC_2.3.2
[jenkins@redhat8-builds- x86_64]$ 

[xerial]

I suggest you can make a similar fix as in #481.

Supporting old versions of Linux is too demanding for voluntary open-source work. I hope you can submit a pull request to address this issue.

[vineshcpaul]

Hi @xerial ,

Thanks for the response and suggestion. Submitted a fix similar to issue #481.
Could you please review the PR when you get some time ?

[xerial]

dockcross now provides a LTS version of cross-compiler, which works for GLIBC 2.28, so this problem will be fixed in the next release #516