Drepper's scheme obviously works tolerably well with glibc, in particular, even if he didn't know what he was talking about. If you don't have symbol versionin

Drepper's scheme obviously works tolerably well with glibc, in particular, even if he didn't know what he was talking about. If you don't have symbol versioning, and you want to statically link something with parts that depend on incompatible versions of a library, you're obviously stuffed.