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Installer doesn't work on linux systems with libc other than glibc

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, shell

Research direction

Start by reproducing the installer command sh CQ-editor-master-Linux-x86_64.sh on a musl-based system and inspect the extracted _conda binary with ldd. Done means the Linux installer can run without glibc-specific libc symbols, including on the reported Void Linux environment.

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Description

$ sh CQ-editor-master-Linux-x86_64.sh
...
Unpacking payload ...
CQ-editor-master-Linux-x86_64.sh: 493: /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: not found

The "not found" here is referring to the libc which it is trying to load.

$ ldd /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f3b3ebd6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f3b3ebd6000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f3b3ebd6000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f3b3ebd6000)
Error relocating /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: __snprintf_chk: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: __realpath_chk: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: __strdup: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: __vsnprintf_chk: symbol not found
Error relocating /home/murray/cq-editor/_conda: __fread_chk: symbol not found

I am on void-linux with musl libc

One way to fix this issue is to compile binaries that are intended to be portable across linux distributions statically so that the only needed ABI at runtime is the linux kernel. Incidentally musl is a good option for this because it is much smaller than glibc.

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