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Curious, what are those reasons?

• nousermane 4y ago
  Package management. It's nice to only have to upgrade one for a system-wide change.
  • mort96 4y ago
    That's the common argument against static linking in general, it's not glibc-specific (or honestly very interesting).
• mort96 4y ago
  Here's a description of it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57478728 https://stackoverflow.com/a/57478728 Basically, glibc uses dlopen to open certain shared libraries for things like nsswitch and locales. Using dlopen in a program that's statically linked to glibc causes all kinds of issues, as you'll likely end up with multiple copies of potentially different versions of glibc in the same process.
  • deleted 4y ago
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