[3.7] bpo-26544: Fixed implementation of platform.libc_ver(). (GH-7684). (GH-8193)

(cherry picked from commit 2a9b8babf0d09946ebebfdb2931cc0d3db5a1d3d)
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 20f9817..e227348 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -144,9 +144,7 @@
                           b'|'
                           br'(libc(_\w+)?\.so(?:\.(\d[0-9.]*))?)', re.ASCII)
 
-def libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='',
-
-             chunksize=16384):
+def libc_ver(executable=sys.executable, lib='', version='', chunksize=16384):
 
     """ Tries to determine the libc version that the file executable
         (which defaults to the Python interpreter) is linked against.
@@ -161,6 +159,7 @@
         The file is read and scanned in chunks of chunksize bytes.
 
     """
+    from distutils.version import LooseVersion as V
     if hasattr(os.path, 'realpath'):
         # Python 2.2 introduced os.path.realpath(); it is used
         # here to work around problems with Cygwin not being
@@ -169,17 +168,19 @@
     with open(executable, 'rb') as f:
         binary = f.read(chunksize)
         pos = 0
-        while 1:
+        while pos < len(binary):
             if b'libc' in binary or b'GLIBC' in binary:
                 m = _libc_search.search(binary, pos)
             else:
                 m = None
-            if not m:
-                binary = f.read(chunksize)
-                if not binary:
+            if not m or m.end() == len(binary):
+                chunk = f.read(chunksize)
+                if chunk:
+                    binary = binary[max(pos, len(binary) - 1000):] + chunk
+                    pos = 0
+                    continue
+                if not m:
                     break
-                pos = 0
-                continue
             libcinit, glibc, glibcversion, so, threads, soversion = [
                 s.decode('latin1') if s is not None else s
                 for s in m.groups()]
@@ -189,12 +190,12 @@
                 if lib != 'glibc':
                     lib = 'glibc'
                     version = glibcversion
-                elif glibcversion > version:
+                elif V(glibcversion) > V(version):
                     version = glibcversion
             elif so:
                 if lib != 'glibc':
                     lib = 'libc'
-                    if soversion and soversion > version:
+                    if soversion and (not version or V(soversion) > V(version)):
                         version = soversion
                     if threads and version[-len(threads):] != threads:
                         version = version + threads
@@ -389,6 +390,7 @@
     warnings.warn('use os.popen instead', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
     return os.popen(cmd, mode, bufsize)
 
+
 def _norm_version(version, build=''):
 
     """ Normalize the version and build strings and return a single