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superkuh • last Tuesday at 11:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

As an end user I often patch the glibc version incompatibility away with https://github.com/corsix/polyfill-glibc

    $ ./polyfill-glibc --target-glibc=2.17 /path/to/my-program
This often leads to discovering new version incompatibilities in other libs. But as the article says others usually can be statically compiled.

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vlovich123 • last Tuesday at 11:41 PM

Wow. This is huge. This patch doesn’t risk weird runtime errors due to missing polyfills or anything? Does it risk polyfilling irrelevant functions that aren’t referenced and bloating?

therein • last Tuesday at 11:57 PM

Very cool. Glad someone finally made this.