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Re: What version of glibc is Python using?

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: What version of glibc is Python using?
Date 2013-10-12 04:46 -0400
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On 10/12/2013 3:53 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 12.10.13 09:20, schrieb Ned Deily:
>> In article <l3as90$5bk$1@dont-email.me>, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Why is the info from "plaform.libc_ver()" so bogus?
>>
>> The code is here:
>>
>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/platform.py#l141
>>
>> Perhaps you could open an issue on the Python bug tracker.
>
> That function is really bogus. It states itself, that it has "intimate
> knowledge of how different libc versions add symbols to the executable
> and thus is probably only useable for executables compiled using gcc"
> which is just another way of saying "it'll become outdated and broken
> soon". It's not even done by reading the symbol table, it opens the
> binary and matches a RE *shocked* I would have expected such hacks in a
> shell script.
>
> glibc has a function for this:
>
>      gnu_get_libc_version ()
>
> which should be used.

So *please* submit a patch with explanation.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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What version of glibc is Python using? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2013-10-11 23:34 -0700
  Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-10-12 08:50 +0200
    Re: What version of glibc is Python using? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2013-10-12 00:03 -0700
      Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-10-12 00:20 -0700
        Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-10-12 09:53 +0200
          Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-10-12 10:34 +0200
          Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-12 04:46 -0400
          Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 05:43 -0600
            Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-12 13:08 +0000
            Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-12 20:02 +0100
            Re: What version of glibc is Python using? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2013-10-13 00:45 -0700
          Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-12 11:59 -0400
          Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-10-12 14:28 -0600
            Re: What version of glibc is Python using? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2013-10-13 10:43 -0700
              Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-13 19:06 +0100
              Re: What version of glibc is Python using? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-10-13 12:06 -0600

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