The problem that I know of is that glibc supports loading DSO modules, eg. for NSS, so it's not going to support pluggable NSS sources like LDAP etc when static

The problem that I know of is that glibc supports loading DSO modules, eg. for NSS, so it's not going to support pluggable NSS sources like LDAP etc when statically linked. There are workarounds, however: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430400/linux-static-linking-is-dead https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3430400/linux-static-lin... Can't imagine many Linux gamers are going to need NSS support in their game binaries. It's a bit of a stretch to say glibc doesn't support static linking, perhaps "officially" it doesn't, its just not all the extended features are going to work. Static linking is generally going to be frowned upon these days however since you're effectively linking security issues into the binary forever.