Build-time physics check for form-X binaries (rules A/B): fail at link time instead of crashing at run time

[Sunrisepeak]

Context

xlings' closure design (openxlings/xlings .agents/docs/2026-08-09-ecosystem-closure-design.md) defines three enforcement points for the runtime-closure contract. Points 1 (index CI) and 2 (xlings client, install-time, warn-only) landed on 2026-08-09. Point 3 is mcpp's, because mcpp's default toolchain config is what puts user binaries into form X:

llvm@22.x clang.cfg:
  -Wl,--dynamic-linker=<xpkgs>/xim-x-glibc/<ver>/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
  -Wl,-rpath,<xpkgs>/xim-x-glibc/<ver>/lib64

A form-X binary (our loader + our libc) has no host fallback: our ld.so's compiled-in cache path exists on no machine, so any host library entering the process resolves only by RPATH — or fails at run time with an error that names neither the package nor the cause. #392 is this exact shape: host libtinfo.so.6 entered via the GL/GLX chain, our glibc 2.39 could not serve GLIBC_2.42, and the user saw a symbol-version error pointing at a library they never chose.

What point 3 should check (physics only, NO policy)

At link time, for the binary just produced:

• Rule B (same-source): the PT_INTERP the driver injected and the libc.so.6 that RPATH will resolve must come from one glibc payload. Mixing (host interp + our libc, or two payload versions) is a pre-main crash with a GLIBC_PRIVATE / vDSO message.
• Rule A (version floor): if the link pulled in ANY host library (-l resolved outside the xlings store), then our_glibc >= host_glibc must hold — glibc is backward-compatible only.

Deliberately not checked: whether the user links host libraries at all. That is the user's choice (xlings rule D applies to index packages only). Point 3 can therefore fail hard from day one — everything it rejects is a binary that cannot run.

Suggested failure messages (from the design doc, C2.4)

rule B: PT_INTERP comes from glibc@2.39 but RPATH resolves libc from glibc@2.44 —
        one process cannot have two libcs.
rule A: this binary is anchored to glibc 2.39 while the host is 2.43 and the link
        pulled in host libtinfo.so.6 — symbols up to GLIBC_2.43 may be required.
        Fix: use a runtime >= the host (xlings subos new <name> --runtime glibc@2.44).

Mitigations already landed on the xlings side (2026.8.9.1)

• glibc latest and the default subos runtime moved 2.39 → 2.44 (new subos only; existing subos keep their recorded binding).
• subos_info.host_glibc now records the host glibc at subos creation — a probe point 3 can reuse instead of probing PATH (getconf on PATH can be a shim; use /usr/bin/getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION).
• ncurses entered the xim index (rule-D root fix for the [Linux] mcpp run 无法启动：私有 glibc 2.39 与系统库 GLIBC 版本冲突，以及切换 glibc 2.44 过程中的排查与发现 #392 chain; a real xmake 3.0.8 bundle now runs under the pure xim closure).

These remove the common triggers, but they do not remove the class: any host library newer than the chosen runtime reproduces it, and only the build tool sees the link set early enough to say so.