Errors when building glibc on Alpine Linux - docker

Question

I am trying to install glibc on Alpine Linux. I am running Alpine Linux in the Docker. Here are the steps I am using:
docker pull alpine
docker run -it alpine /bin/sh
apk add --no-cache make gcc linux-headers bsd-compat-headers gawk bison binutils coreutils diffutils gettext bash grep sed texinfo perl
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.28.tar.gz
tar -xzf glibc-2.28.tar.gz
cd glibc-2.28
mkdir glibc-build
cd glibc-build
../configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
--libexecdir=/usr/bin --with-headers=/usr/include \
--enable-static-pie
cat > /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/opt/lib
# End /etc/ld.so.conf
EOF
make
make install
I am getting following error on 11th step:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/6.4.0/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/bin/ld: cannot find -lssp_nonshared
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [Makefile:129: /glibc-2.28/glibc-build/elf/sotruss-lib.so] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/glibc-2.28/elf'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:258: elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/glibc-2.28'
make: *** [Makefile:9: all] Error 2
If I try to add --disable-shared flag than another errors occur.
The error could be solved by adding libc-dev with the following command: apk add --no-cache libc-dev. But this way I would have two C libraries but I need my application to use glibc specifically.
UPDATE
If I run apk add --no-cache libc-dev, make command passes successfully but make install fails with the following error:
Execution of gcc failed!
The script has found some problems with your installation!
Please read the FAQ and the README file and check the following:
Did you change the gcc specs file (necessary after upgrading from
Linux libc5)?
Are there any symbolic links of the form libXXX.so to old libraries?
Links like libm.so -> libm.so.5 (where libm.so.5 is an old library) are wrong,
libm.so should point to the newly installed glibc file - and there should be
only one such link (check e.g. /lib and /usr/lib)
You should restart this script from your build directory after you've
fixed all problems!
Btw. the script doesn't work if you're installing GNU libc not as your
primary library!

Answer 1

Eventually, I changed few steps in order to build glibc on Alpine Linux.
Here are the steps that worked for me:
docker pull alpine
docker run -it alpine /bin/sh
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.28.tar.gz
tar -xzf glibc-2.28.tar.gz
cd glibc-2.28
mkdir glibc-build
cd glibc-build
apk add --no-cache make gcc gawk bison linux-headers libc-dev
../configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-headers=/usr/include \
--without-cvs --enable-static-pie
cat > /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF" # Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/opt/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/lib64
/usr/libexec
# End /etc/ld.so.conf
EOF
make
make install
I hope these steps will work for everybody else also.

Answer 2

Installing musl-dev should get you past that build error, too, so you'll be building glibc against musl.
The musl-dev package has its own /usr/lib/libssp_nonshared.a:
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/contents?file=libssp_nonshared.a&path=&name=musl-dev&branch=v3.8&repo=main&arch=x86_64