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charcircuit • 04/02/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

>then complain entirely about glibc

You can ship all of your of the libraries you use with your executable. This isn't possible to do with glibc. It's the exception which is why it's talked about the most.


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mikepavone • 04/02/2025

> It's the exception which is why it's talked about the most.

It's definitely not the only exception. libgl is another obvious example since different GPUs need different userland code. I would be surprised if there there had never been compat regressions in those.

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