Instruction

Running build script

docker run --mount type=bind,src="{Absolute path to AWS SAM CLI source}",dst="/aws-sam-cli" -it quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64
cd aws-sam-cli
./installer/pyinstaller/build-linux.sh aws-sam-cli-linux-x86_64.zip

Linux Builds

The Linux builds require using a manylinux image to build an artifact usable on a breadth of Linux machines. The currently used image is quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64:latest which uses glibc version 2.17. This version of glibc is outdated and requires updating to support newer software such as Node.js 20 used by GitHub actions. In the meantime, the Linux pyinstaller action is run inside of a nested container to get around this issue. In the future, we need to move to using a newer image with a newer version of glibc configured.

A good candidate for this is quay.io/pypa/manylinux_2_28_x86_64 which is an image that uses glibc version 2.28. However, the current Amazon Linux 2 image uses glibc version 2.26, meaning that upgrading now will render customer on that OS incapable of using newer versions of AWS SAM CLI. When that image hits its end-of-life date, we can update the installer to use the newer image.