zig targets, error: unable to read libc/glibc/abilists: Unexpected

[jimying]

Zig Version

0.14.0-dev.1816+20e03beae

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

run zig targets, get error :

error: unable to read libc/glibc/abilists: Unexpected

also, i test build simple hello.c, zig cc -target x86_64-linux-gnu hello.c or
zig cc -target x86_64-linux-musl hello.c, get error:

hello.c:1:1: error: Unexpected
error: sub-compilation of glibc crti.o failed
    note: unable to check cache: stat file '/home/pi/bak/zig14/lib/libc/glibc/sysdeps/x86_64/crti.S' failed: Unexpected
error: sub-compilation of compiler_rt failed
    note: unable to check cache: stat file '/home/pi/bak/zig14/lib/compiler_rt.zig' failed: Unexpected
error: unable to build glibc CRT file: SubCompilationFailed
error: sub-compilation of glibc crtn.o failed
    note: unable to check cache: stat file '/home/pi/bak/zig14/lib/libc/glibc/sysdeps/x86_64/crtn.S' failed: Unexpected
error: sub-compilation of glibc Scrt1.o failed
    note: unable to check cache: stat file '/home/pi/bak/zig14/lib/libc/glibc/sysdeps/x86_64/start-2.33.S' failed: Unexpected
error: sub-compilation of glibc libc_nonshared.a failed
    note: unable to check cache: stat file '/home/pi/bak/zig14/lib/libc/glibc/stdlib/atexit.c' failed: Unexpected
error: unable to build glibc shared objects: Unexpected

Expected Behavior

no error

[andrewrk]

I can't reproduce this. How did you obtain the zig binary? If you do a git pull you have to rerun make/ninja.

[jimying]

I can't reproduce this. How did you obtain the zig binary? If you do a git pull you have to rerun make/ninja.

Sorry, I I forgot to mention the system version. linux os:

 Centos7.9.2009 x86_64

[andrewrk]

unplanned milestone while we wait for an answer to the question

[jimying]

I didn't describe it clearly.

• the zig binary is downloaded from ziglang.org/download

• the issue occurred on CentOS 7 X86_64, but there is no problem with the new version of Linux ( tested debian12)

[andrewrk]

Thank you, you have now answered the question, but I still cannot reproduce the problem.

[alexrp]

@jimying uname -a?

[jimying]

@jimying uname -a?

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.03.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 27 09:59:41 CST 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[alexrp]

That's quite an old kernel (from 2013). Zig currently formally requires 4.19 (2018) or later for the standard library abstractions (and by extension the compiler) to work. The specific problem in this case is that your kernel lacks statx() which was added in 4.11 (2017).

[jimying]

zig 0.13 works fine, maybe not this reason?

[alexrp]

The switch to statx() happened after 0.13.0 in #20389.

But do note that even Zig 0.13.0 strictly speaking required 4.19+. We just didn't take advantage of that fact at the time.