conda use a newer version of glibc

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I am deploying a R script from within a conda environment on a cluster. The script loads a few packages that require glibc version >= 2.14. While my system has glibc version 2.14, the cluster has a glibc version 2.12 and I get the following error:

/lib64/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by...)

How can I tell conda to use a later version of glibc that is in my system library?

So far I have added a line in my cluster submission script to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be the same as my system's library path. This failed and the glibc version remains 2.12 as seen using conda info.

I also tried adding an environmental variable LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/my/libc.so.6 before the execution of my script. However this gave me a segmentation fault error.

I have also tried a solution from this previous answer. However, I get an error saying that my make and gawk are too old. And I do not have root privileges to do anything about this.

Please help me with this.

Does this answer your question? [Multiple glibc libraries on a single host](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/847179/multiple-glibc-libraries-on-a-single-host) — Employed Russian, Jun 24 '20 at 15:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '20 at 15:39

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However this gave me a segmentation fault error.

This answer explains why mismatch between ld-linux and libc.so.6 results in errors (segmentaion fault is one frequent class), and what to do about it.

Setting LD_PRELOAD can't fix this.

answered Jun 24 '20 at 15:39

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