Glibc 2.7 configure error programs too old

Question

When i load a GenomicFeatures package in R, it pop up a error message:

Loading required package: IRanges
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : 
  unable to load shared object '/home/caohf/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.15/IRanges/libs/IRanges.so':
  /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /home/caohf/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.15/IRanges/libs/IRanges.so)
Error: package ‘IRanges’ could not be loaded

so i want to install glibc2.7, the source was downloaded from this site.

I configure the soure as non-root:

mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/home/cao/bin

there is a configure error on the screen:

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/x86_64/elf nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/x86_64 nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/x86_64/fpu nptl/sysdeps/x86_64 sysdeps/x86_64 sysdeps/wordsize-64 sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether /usr/libexec/binutils220/as is GNU as... yes
checking whether ld is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/libexec/binutils220/as... /usr/libexec/binutils220/as
checking version of /usr/libexec/binutils220/as... 2.20.51.0.2, bad
checking for ld... ld
checking version of ld... 2.17.50.0.6, ok
checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
checking for gcc... gcc
checking version of gcc... 4.4.6, ok
checking for gnumake... no
checking for gmake... gmake checking version of gmake... 3.81, ok
checking for gnumsgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... no
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking version of msgfmt... 0.14.6, ok
checking for makeinfo... no
checking for sed... sed
checking version of sed... 4.1.5, ok
checking for autoconf... autoconf
checking whether autoconf works... yes
configure: error:
These critical programs are missing or too old: as
Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

Below is the recommended tools for compilation in the INSTALL file(and the version in my system):

1 GNU make 3.79 or newer
my system:

GNU Make 3.81

2 GCC 3.4 or newer, GCC 4.1 recommended
my sys:

gcc version 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) (GCC)

3 GNU binutils 2.15 or later
i don't know how to check the version of binutils,but

 as -v
 ld -v

GNU assembler version 2.17.50.0.6-12.el5 (x86_64-redhat-linux) using BFD version 2.17.50.0.6-12.el5 20061020
GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-12.el5 20061020

4 GNU texinfo 3.12f
I don't the version either? need help

5 GNU awk 3.0, or higher
my sys:

GNU Awk 3.1.5

6 Perl 5
mine:

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

7 GNU sed 3.02 or newer
mine:

GNU sed version 4.1.5

8 GNU autoconf 2.53 or higher
mine:

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59

9 GNU gettext 0.10.36 or later mine:

gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.14.6

I am in :

CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
Linux iodell-01 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5

Do i have to install the newer version of glibc, I am afraid the system's package is too old for the newer one. how can i figure it out? thank you

Answer 1

I encountered similar problem. The issue is with regex for as,ld in configure.in file.

Knowing that I have 2.20 which is certainly >2.15 (as per INSTALL file), I update the regex from

[2.1[3-9]*]

I commented the Version check for as,ld. Technically I should fix that Regex but unfortunately something like this didnt work

[2.20*]

As I didnt want to waste much time, just commented it for now and removed the check from configure file. Will update the post later with proper regex.