Dependency changes when building a self contained application in SDK version 8.0.303 to 8.0.401

[MartBentNedap]

Describe the bug

The library depedencies of our self-contained dotnet application change when building with version 8.0.401 instead of 8.0.303. As far as I can tell this should not be possible since it is a minor version change.

To Reproduce

We reproduce the issue by building our application with the follow command:

dotnet publish TestApplication/TestApplication.csproj -c Release -p:Version=$VERSION -o $CI_PROJECT_DIR/out/ -r linux-arm /p:PublishTrimmed=true --self-contained /p:PublishSingleFile=true -f net6.0

The docker image used is mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0. This image contains SDK version 8.0.401.

When running the application on our Linux device, we run into the following error:
./TestApplication: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by ./TestApplication)

But when we build with image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk@sha256:e9f45219cca08134f09cb973de3e8364d5a22ad30dfff1343830003c6494a735 This error does NOT occur, this image uses SDK version 8.0.303.

It is not easily reproduce able since it is a non-public Linux distribution. Let me know if any more information is required.

Further technical details

• output of uname -a on our device: Linux FX96006B9E16 4.9.182-rt131-yocto-standard dotnet/sdk#1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 14 11:47:31 IST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux

[tmds]

Per https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/8.0/supported-os.md#linux-compatibility arm32 needs glibc 2.35 or higher.

The glibc version on your Linux distribution doesn't meet that requirement, that's why the application fails to load when it tries to find a "GLIBC_2.27" versioned symbol.

This error does NOT occur, this image uses SDK version 8.0.303.

Something in the .NET build changed and now it is using a 2.27 glibc symbol.

This won't cause issues on glibc 2.35+ systems, but if glibc is below 2.27 the application won't run.

cc @richlander

[tmds]

-f net6.0

Since you are using 6.0, this should apply: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/6.0/supported-os.md#linux-compatibility.

So the minimal required glibc version should be 2.23. The application that gets built shouldn't use a 2.27 glibc symbol.

[tmds]

@richlander it seems recent .NET 6.0 arm32 builds now require glibc 2.27, which is higher than the documented glibc version (v2.23)

[MartBent]

The whole reason we build for net6 is to prevent our linux distro from becoming incompatible. It seems odd that the application dependencies change when the SDK which is used to build the application is updated. Is this change intentional? We have no power over the linux distro that is used so this would mean that we must build our application with an outdated SDK version to keep it from breaking... @tmds

[tmds]

@jkotas the glibc version required by .NET 6 has changed. Do you have some insights why this happened?

[jkotas]

#103266 switched building linux-arm in release/6.0 branch from ubuntu-16.04-cross-20210719121212-8a8d3be to ubuntu-18.04-cross-arm-20220907130538-70ed2e8. It explains the bump in the minimal glibc version.

@amanasifkhalid Was this intentional change?