glibc version not new enough to compile crates that use error-chain crate as a dependency about cross HOT 5 CLOSED

Actually, I think this is not a problem specific to the error-chain crate but with any crate that involves build scripts. The problem is that Cargo caches and shares the build scripts (the executables) across the different cross compilation target directories, which is actually a good thing but causes problems when combined with several cross environments.

To illustrate:

$ cargo new --bin foo && cd $_
$ cargo add error-chain
$ cross build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
$ cross build --target mips-unknown-linux-gnu

Here the build script was compiled within the x86_64 environment and was linked to glibc-2.15. Then the second cross build reuses that build script. No problem because the mips environment contains glibc-2.23. However, if you swap the commands

$ cargo clean
$ cross build --target mips-unknown-linux-gnu
$ cross build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Here the build script was compiled on the mips environment and it's linked to glibc-2.23. Then the second cross build reuses that build script but it runs it inside an environment that only has glibc-2.15. That's what causes problems with undefined symbols.

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The workaround is to cargo clean if you are going to use several cross environment in a single Cargo project. rm **/build-script-build may do the trick as well. That or order your cross build commands to build the build scripts against the environment with the oldest glibc.

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upgrading the docker base to ubuntu:14.04 and setting all the curl calls to use --insecure (I know its a bad idea 😄 ) seems to have done the trick and I can now use error-chain 👍

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Ran into the same issue running trust (see link above). Adding cargo clean before running cross build appears to fix it.

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We've updated the images to 16.04 and soon will be updating the to 20.04 in v0.3.0 (see #591), and documented how to use those images based on Ubuntu 20.04 earlier in the wiki.

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