diff --git a/host-memcpy-hack.h b/host-memcpy-hack.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fa90a3361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-memcpy-hack.h
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+#ifdef __x86_64__
+/* 
+ * Force the linker to use the older memcpy variant, so that the user programs
+ * work on older systems
+ */
+__asm__(".symver memcpy,memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5");
+#endif