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Before, native glibc and dynamic linker detection attempted to use the executable's own binary if it was dynamically linked to answer both the C ABI question and the dynamic linker question. However, this could be problematic on a system that uses a RUNPATH for the compiler binary, locking it to an older glibc version, while system binaries such as /usr/bin/env use a newer glibc version. The problem is that libc.so.6 glibc version will match that of the system while the dynamic linker will match that of the compiler binary. Executables with these versions mismatching will fail to run. Therefore, this commit changes the logic to be the same regardless of whether the compiler binary is dynamically or statically linked. It inspects `/usr/bin/env` as an ELF file to find the answer to these questions, or if there is a shebang line, then it chases the referenced file recursively. If that does not provide the answer, then the function falls back to defaults. This commit also solves a TODO to remove an Allocator parameter to the detect() function.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.