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> Glibc has great backwards compatibility We're clearly not living in the same universe here. glibc backward compatibility is horrible. Every. Single. Time.
by ur-whale 2y ago
> Glibc has great backwards compatibility
We're clearly not living in the same universe here.
glibc backward compatibility is horrible.
Every. Single. Time. I try to use an old binary on a modern distro, it bombs, usually with some incomprehensible error message with GLIBC in all caps in it.
And these days, you can't even link glibc statically, when you try it barks at you with vehemence.
As a matter of fact, as pointed out in the article, this particular shortcoming of glibc completely negates the work done by Linus to keep userland backward compatible at all cost.
- account42 2y ago[citation needed] Please post actual issues encountered, including non-paraphrased errors instead of FUD. And if you want to statically link your libc there is nothing forcing you to use glibc. You're only stuck with glibc (and even then you don't actually need to use any functions from it yourself) if you need dynamic linnking for e.g. OpenGL/Vulkan. Also, glibc wasn't designed for static linking even before they put in safeguards against that.