GLIBC 2.18 requirement causes incompatibility with CentOS 7

[sfc-gh-pbennes]

Greetings!

It appears that the Linux build of ripgrep for VSCode is happening in an environment with GLIBC 2.18. This results in a binary incompatible with operating systems with a lower GLIBC version. CentOS 7 ships with GLIBC 2.17 and is one such incompatible OS.

This causes issues with vscode features that rely on ripgrep funcitonality: microsoft/vscode-remote-release#6930. Specifically microsoft/vscode-remote-release#6930 (comment).

Can the build be moved to an environment with a GLIBC version 2.17 or lower to support CentOS 7?

[chrmarti]

@roblourens https://stackoverflow.com/a/47239631/7857763 suggests to use an older Rust toolchain that only supports GLIBC 2.17. (We currently list GLIBC 2.17 and CentOS 7 as supported in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/requirements.)

[mshijie]

I was wondering if there have been any developments on this issue.

[andreamah]

I was wondering if there have been any developments on this issue.

Yup! I'm currently trying to get a new build of ripgrep-prebuilt so that I can release a new vscode-ripgrep with some fixes to remove the GLIBC requirement.