Linux standalone build now includes its own glibc and forces the linker to use it, to remove dependence on the host glibc.

standalone/linux/README

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-You can put this directory into your PATH, and use git-annex the same
+You can put this directory into your PATH, or symlink the programs in this
+directory to anyplace already in your PATH, and use git-annex the same
 as if you'd installed it using a package manager.
 
 Or, you can use the runshell script in this directory to start a shell
@@ -6,20 +7,14 @@ that is configured to use git-annex and the other utilities included in
 this bundle, including git, gpg, rsync, ssh, etc.
 
 This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture.
-More or less. There are no external dependencies, except for glibc.
-Any recent-ish version of glibc should work (2.13 is ok; so is 2.11).
+More or less.
 
 
 How it works: This directory tree contains a lot of libraries and programs
-that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets PATH
-and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the stuff in here.
+that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets a lot
+of environment variables to cause files from here to be used, and a shim
+around the binaries arranges for them to be run with the libraries in here.
 
-The glibc libs are not included. Instead, it runs with the host system's
-glibc. We trust that glibc's excellent backwards and forward compatability
-is good enough to run binaries that were linked for a newer or older
-version. Of course, this could fail. Particularly if the binaries try to
-use some new glibc feature. But hopefully not.
-
-Why not bundle glibc too? I've not gotten it to work! The host system's 
-ld-linux.so will be used for sure, as that's hardcoded into the binaries.
-When I tried including libraries from glibc in here, everything segfaulted.
+It shouldn't even be dependent on the host system's glibc libraries.
+All that's needed is a kernel that supports the glibc included in this
+bundle.

standalone/linux/glibc-libs

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-libanl-.*.so
-libutil-.*.so
-libnss_hesiod-.*.so
-libcrypt-.*.so
-libnss_compat-.*.so
-libm-.*.so
-libr.so
-libpcprofile.so
-libnss_nis-.*.so
-libSegFault.so
-libpthread-.*.so
-librt-.*.so
-libnss_dns-.*.so
-libdl-.*.so
-libBrokenLocale-.*.so
-libnss_nisplus-.*.so
-libthread_db-1.0.so
-libmemusage.so
-libcidn-.*.so
-libnss_files-.*.so
-libnsl-.*.so
-libc-.*.so
-ld-.*.so
-libnss_nis.so
-libthread_db.so
-libanl.so
-libr.so
-libnss_compat.so
-libm.so
-libnss_dns.so
-libpthread.so
-libc.so
-librt.so
-libcidn.so
-libnss_nisplus.so
-libnsl.so
-libutil.so
-libBrokenLocale.so
-ld-linux.so
-libnss_files.so
-libdl.so
-libnss_hesiod.so
-libcrypt.so
-linux-vdso.so
-linux-gate.so

standalone/linux/runshell

@@ -46,12 +46,20 @@ export ORIG_PATH
 PATH=$base/bin:$PATH
 export PATH
 
-ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
-export ORIG_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+# This is used by the shim wrapper around each binary.
 for lib in $(cat $base/libdirs); do
-	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$base/$lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+	GIT_ANNEX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$base/$lib:$GIT_ANNEX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 done
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+export GIT_ANNEX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+GIT_ANNEX_LINKER=$(cat $base/linker)
+export GIT_ANNEX_LINKER
+GIT_ANNEX_SHIMMED="$base/shimmed"
+export GIT_ANNEX_SHIMMED
+
+ORIG_GCONV_PATH="$GCONV_PATH"
+export ORIG_GCONV_PATH
+GCONV_PATH=$base/$(cat $base/gconvdir)
+export GCONV_PATH
 
 ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH="$GIT_EXEC_PATH"
 export ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH
@@ -68,8 +76,9 @@ export ORIG_MANPATH
 MANPATH="$base/usr/share/man:$MANPATH"
 export MANPATH
 
-# Indicate which variables were exported above.
-GIT_ANNEX_STANDLONE_ENV="PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR MANPATH"
+# Indicate which variables were exported above and should be cleaned
+# when running non-bundled programs.
+GIT_ANNEX_STANDLONE_ENV="PATH GCONV_PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR MANPATH"
 export GIT_ANNEX_STANDLONE_ENV
 
 if [ "$1" ]; then