alt Hacker NewsIf you have a distro-supplied binary that doesn't link with the distro-supplied glibc, something is very very wrong.
If you're supplying your own binaries and not compiling/linking them against the distro-supplied glibc, that's on you.
If you have a distro-supplied binary that doesn't link with the distro-supplied glibc, something is very very wrong.
If you're supplying your own binaries and not compiling/linking them against the distro-supplied glibc, that's on you.
Linking against every distro-supplied glibc to distribute your own software is as unrealistic as getting distributions to distribute your software for you. The model is backwards from what users and developers expect.
But that's not the point I'm making. I'm attacking the idea that they're "working just fine" when the above is a bug that nearly everyone hits in the wild as a user and a developer shipping software on Linux. It's not the only one caused by the model, but it's certainly one of the most common.