alt Hacker NewsGlibc has a terrible history of binary incompatibility. If that's so hard to believe, try running binaries built on one distribution on other distributions. Linux has two stable ABIs: the kernel ABI for static programs, and, ironically, WINE.
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diabllicseagull • today at 1:26 AM
according to appimage recommendations as long as you build against glibc with an earlier version than the system it's run on it should be fine.
https://docs.appimage.org/reference/best-practices.html
I hear you about WINE though.
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I haven’t heard of this and I don’t think you’re right. Glibc, for all its faults, as a general rule does backward compatibility well. The problem is if you compile against a newer glibc (common in CI by default) and try to run on a distro with an older (common in the wild). If your CI uses an older glibc you should be fine AFAIK.