This often occurs when you build software in RHEL 7 and try to run on RHEL 6.

To update GLIBC to any version, simply download the package from

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/

For example glibc-2.14.tar.gz in your case.

1. tar xvfz glibc-2.14.tar.gz
2. cd glibc-2.14
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. ../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14
6. make
7. sudo make install
8. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Then try to run your software, glibc-2.14 should be linked.

Yes, upgrading the C library is a risky endeavour and could break the system, possibly in non-obvious ways. Upgrading the GNU C library within Red Hat Enterprise Linux goes into details. You might run into issues with support too.

If the RHEL 6 system is soon to be upgraded to RHEL 7, your best bet might be to wait for that. As Philip Couling says, if your development and production environments don’t match, you’re testing in production anyway. Alternatively, you could look at the Developer Toolset which will allow you to build and run compatible programs for RHEL 6 and 7, with newer versions of GCC and the C library.

It is a real error, but a temporary one: it occurred because glibc-common was installed before glibc, so the updated C library itself wasn’t available yet when the updated build-locale-archive ran.

You could re-install glibc-common to re-run the post-installation setup:

rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm

(I haven’t checked whether that is necessary, but it won’t do any harm.)

It seems that Java binary that you installed was compiled against different version of GLIBC. You might be using an RPM for RHEL7 on RHEL6.

You either need to compile the Java on RHEL6 yourself or find the correct RPM. As per OpenJDK Life Cycle and Support Policy docs Java 8 is only officially supported on RHEL 6.6 or higher.

What are the options which can make application built on RHEL 8 using gcc run on RHEL 6.

Running the application in a docker container may be a reasonable option.

You could also install GLIBC-2.14 (or newer) in parallel to the system GLIBC. See this answer.

You cannot update glibc on Centos 6 safely. However you can install 2.14 alongside 2.12 easily, then use it to compile projects etc. Here is how:

mkdir ~/glibc_install; cd ~/glibc_install 

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.tar.gz

tar zxvf glibc-2.14.tar.gz

cd glibc-2.14

mkdir build

cd build

../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14

make -j4

sudo make install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/glibc-2.14/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"