Linking against older symbol version in a .so file

Question

Using gcc and ld on x86_64 linux I need to link against a newer version of a library (glibc 2.14) but the executable needs to run on a system with an older version (2.5). Si

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. A third party library we use needs the old memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5. My solution is an extended approach @anight posted.

I also warp the memcpy command, but i had to use a slightly different approach, since the solution @anight posted did not work for me.

memcpy_wrap.c:

#include 
#include 

asm (".symver wrap_memcpy, memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5");
void *wrap_memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n) {
  return memcpy(dest, src, n);
}

memcpy_wrap.map:

GLIBC_2.2.5 {
   memcpy;
};

Build the wrapper:

gcc -c memcpy_wrap.c -o memcpy_wrap.o

Now finally when linking the program add

• -Wl,--version-script memcpy_wrap.map
• memcpy_wrap.o

so that you will end up with something like:

g++  -Wl,--version-script memcpy_wrap.map  memcpy_wrap.o