GLIBCX_3.4.21 not found

Question

I apologize if this isn't the right place for this, but after 2 days of dealing with the same error, I'm hoping someone will have an answer.

I am trying to use the node module zerorpc, which uses zmq, however, when trying to run a small example, I get the following error:

Error: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by myFilepath/node_modules/zmq/build/Release/zmq.node)

I'm using an amazon linux instance provided by AWS (amazon web services). After performing a sudo yum update, the latest version available is GLIBCXX_3.4.19. I checked using the following commands:

strings /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.19 | grep GLIBCXX
strings /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX

Initially, I got this error using brew install zmq, so I uninstalled it and tried installing zmq following the zeromq site's instructions:

git clone https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j 4
make check && make install && sudo ldconfig

The only difference I made to these instructions was that I ran them individually instead of using &&, and I added sudo in front of each one. I also executed export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib before running these.

I then did npm install zerorpc --save. Of course, I received the same error, so I uninstalled zerorpc, did a make clean, and started all the steps over, except this time I changed the configure instruction to sudo ./configure CXX=/usr/bin/g++ CC=/usr/bin/gcc. And again, I received the same error.

Hopefully someone has a suggestion. I really don't want to attempt to compile a newer gcc version from source as I know that will just be a new round of headaches.

Answer 1

I didn't necessarily "fix" the problem, but I did find a solution. Since I'm using AWS, I launched an Ubuntu instance (compared to the Amazon Linux instance I was using originally), and moved the project over.

The reason for doing this is because Ubuntu uses a different package manager. After updating and installing all the basic things to run the project, I actually encountered the exact same error again.

I then ran the following commands, and the error went away:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

These commands were suggested in another stackoverflow post.

I won't mark this as the accepted answer since moving to a different distribution probably isn't a viable solution for most people.