The reason for the funny message is that it’s not that it’s failing to find libc.so while doing dynamic linking; it’s the kernel failing to find the interpreter

The reason for the funny message is that it’s not that it’s failing to find libc.so while doing dynamic linking; it’s the kernel failing to find the interpreter designated in the ELF image (ld-linux.so). Unfortunately the kernel responds with an ENOENT, which is indistinguishable to the caller from not finding the binary itself.