There was a regression in glibc library version 2.26 - 22299 – Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform , which unfortunately affects build-wrapper. From the above ticket regression was fixed in version 2.27.
Unfortunately Ubuntu 17.10 comes with glibc version 2.26 and without patch for the above problem - see Ubuntu – Package Search Results -- libc-bin => artful-updates ( Ubuntu – Error ) => Ubuntu Changelog ( http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.26-0ubuntu2.1/changelog ).
Ubuntu 18.04 comes with glibc version 2.27 with fix for the above problem - see Ubuntu – Package Search Results -- libc-bin => bionic ( Ubuntu – Error ). And build-wrapper perfectly works on it:
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ubuntu 18.04 113a43faa138 13 days ago 81.1MB
$ docker run -it --rm ubuntu:18.04 env PS1='(ubuntu:18.04) $ ' sh
(ubuntu:18.04) $ apt-get -qq update
(ubuntu:18.04) $ apt-get -qq -y install wget unzip
(ubuntu:18.04) $ wget -q https://sonarcloud.io/static/cpp/build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip
(ubuntu:18.04) $ unzip -q build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip
(ubuntu:18.04) $ ./build-wrapper-linux-x86/build-wrapper-linux-x86-64 --out-dir test /bin/echo test
test
So I think that your test of Ubuntu 18.04 was flawed.
Should be noted that Ubuntu 17 is not an LTS version and will reach EOL in July 2018 - see Releases - Ubuntu Wiki , and we are not planning to try find a workaround on our side for it.
Also please keep in mind that not always possible to implement workarounds for bugs in third-party components, especially when they are at a such low level - loader of executable files.
P.S.
SonarQube Version 7.1 build 11001
build-wrapper is part of SonarCFamily Plugin and there is no way to guess their versions from version of SonarQube server. build-wrapper prints its version when executed without parameters:
$ ./build-wrapper-linux-x86/build-wrapper-linux-x86-64
build-wrapper, version 5.1 (linux-x86)