From: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@getgoogleoff.me>

Based on https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/12567 and https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/17671
with small fixes, all ported to 0.11.0.

First try `getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION` to detect glibc version,
If there are any errors, skip to the upstream logic.

Also fix glibc version parsing: if version string does not contain third (patch) component, "std.SemanticVersion.parse" returns parsing error.
For example, this currently happens with "GLIBC_2.37" or "glibc 2.37" inputs.
To fix this, we use copy-pasted "std.zig.CrossTarget.parse" function here, that sets omitted patch component to 0.

After applying this patch, both `zig build-exe --show-builtin` and `zig env` show correct version on my default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma :
glibc 2.37.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914731
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914101

diff --git a/lib/std/zig/system/NativeTargetInfo.zig b/lib/std/zig/system/NativeTargetInfo.zig
index 99a1a8f2e..0250db968 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig/system/NativeTargetInfo.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig/system/NativeTargetInfo.zig
@@ -19,6 +19,32 @@ dynamic_linker: DynamicLinker = DynamicLinker{},

 pub const DynamicLinker = Target.DynamicLinker;

+// Copy-pasted from `std.zig.CrossTarget.parse` to avoid introducing unexpected new public function as part of standard library.
+/// Parses a version with an omitted patch component, such as "1.0",
+/// which SemanticVersion.parse is not capable of.
+fn parseWithOptionalPatchField(ver: []const u8) error{ InvalidVersion, Overflow }!std.SemanticVersion {
+    const parseVersionComponent = struct {
+        fn parseVersionComponent(component: []const u8) !usize {
+            return std.fmt.parseUnsigned(usize, component, 10) catch |err| {
+                switch (err) {
+                    error.InvalidCharacter => return error.InvalidVersion,
+                    error.Overflow => return error.Overflow,
+                }
+            };
+        }
+    }.parseVersionComponent;
+    var version_components = mem.splitScalar(u8, ver, '.');
+    const major = version_components.first();
+    const minor = version_components.next() orelse return error.InvalidVersion;
+    const patch = version_components.next() orelse "0";
+    if (version_components.next() != null) return error.InvalidVersion;
+    return .{
+        .major = try parseVersionComponent(major),
+        .minor = try parseVersionComponent(minor),
+        .patch = try parseVersionComponent(patch),
+    };
+}
+
 pub const DetectError = error{
     FileSystem,
     SystemResources,
@@ -307,6 +333,39 @@ fn detectAbiAndDynamicLinker(
     }
     const ld_info_list = ld_info_list_buffer[0..ld_info_list_len];

+    if (is_linux and !os_is_non_native and cross_target.glibc_version == null) try_getconf: {
+        var buf: [4096]u8 = undefined;
+        var fba = std.heap.FixedBufferAllocator.init(&buf);
+        const allocator = fba.allocator();
+
+        const getconf = std.process.Child.exec(.{
+            .allocator = allocator,
+            .argv = &.{ "getconf", "GNU_LIBC_VERSION" },
+            .max_output_bytes = 1024,
+        }) catch break :try_getconf;
+        if (!std.mem.startsWith(u8, getconf.stdout, "glibc ")) break :try_getconf;
+        const version_string = std.mem.trim(u8, getconf.stdout["glibc ".len..], &std.ascii.whitespace);
+        const glibc_version = parseWithOptionalPatchField(version_string) catch break :try_getconf;
+
+        var os_with_glibc = os;
+        os_with_glibc.version_range.linux.glibc = glibc_version;
+
+        const target: Target = .{
+            .cpu = cpu,
+            .os = os_with_glibc,
+            .abi = .gnu,
+            .ofmt = cross_target.ofmt orelse Target.ObjectFormat.default(os_with_glibc.tag, cpu.arch),
+        };
+        const result: NativeTargetInfo = .{
+            .target = target,
+            .dynamic_linker = if (cross_target.dynamic_linker.get() == null)
+                target.standardDynamicLinkerPath()
+            else
+                cross_target.dynamic_linker,
+        };
+        return result;
+    }
+
     // Best case scenario: the executable is dynamically linked, and we can iterate
     // over our own shared objects and find a dynamic linker.
     const elf_file = blk: {
@@ -563,7 +622,7 @@ fn glibcVerFromSoFile(file: fs.File) !std.SemanticVersion {
     while (it.next()) |s| {
         if (mem.startsWith(u8, s, "GLIBC_2.")) {
             const chopped = s["GLIBC_".len..];
-            const ver = std.SemanticVersion.parse(chopped) catch |err| switch (err) {
+            const ver = parseWithOptionalPatchField(chopped) catch |err| switch (err) {
                 error.Overflow => return error.InvalidGnuLibCVersion,
                 error.InvalidVersion => return error.InvalidGnuLibCVersion,
             };
@@ -586,7 +645,7 @@ fn glibcVerFromLinkName(link_name: []const u8, prefix: []const u8) !std.Semantic
     }
     // chop off "libc-" and ".so"
     const link_name_chopped = link_name[prefix.len .. link_name.len - suffix.len];
-    return std.SemanticVersion.parse(link_name_chopped) catch |err| switch (err) {
+    return parseWithOptionalPatchField(link_name_chopped) catch |err| switch (err) {
         error.Overflow => return error.InvalidGnuLibCVersion,
         error.InvalidVersion => return error.InvalidGnuLibCVersion,
     };