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forrestthewoods04/02/20251 replyview on HN

> executables built and using a newer glibc

It’s an abomination that Linux uses system libraries when building. Catastrophically terrible and stupid decision.

It should be trivial for any program to compile and specify any arbitrary previous version of glibc as the target.

Linux got this so incredibly wildly wrong. It’s a shame.


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AshamedCaptain04/02/2025

Ehm... you _can_ use the older toolchain even in the newer "Linux", in the same way you have to use a older Visual Studio to target Windows 8 from Windows 10.

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