Vers CLI does not function on musl libc based linux distros

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The vers binary is dynamically linked against glibc, so it doesn't work on Alpine Linux or any other distros that use a different Libc. It also maybe looks for glibc in an odd place? as even after I installed glibc it couldn't find it.

It does run on Ubuntu 25.04 though.

To reproduce:

curl -L "https://github.com/hdresearch/vers-cli/releases/download/v0.4.3/vers-linux-amd64" -o vers
chmod +x vers
./vers

returns

-sh: ./vers: not found

What is is linked against:

$ ldd vers
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f45cd3a6000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f45cd3a6000)
Error relocating vers: __vfprintf_chk: symbol not found
Error relocating vers: __fprintf_chk: symbol not found

[shofetim]

I just tried the latest version, with

# Download and install Vers
curl -L "https://github.com/hdresearch/vers-cli/releases/download/v0.5.1/vers-linux-amd64" -o vers
chmod +x vers
sudo mv vers /usr/local/bin/vers

And it does not work.

$ file vers 
vers: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=ef05b507ded678dac7a979aa5b7786cfb6fb5282, stripped

$ ldd vers 
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7fcd21d3b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7fcd21d3b000)
Error relocating vers: __vfprintf_chk: symbol not found
Error relocating vers: __fprintf_chk: symbol not found

[shofetim]

Building with https://github.com/hdresearch/vers-cli/tree/js/build-on-musl produces a static linked binary that can run on musl and glibc based distros