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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by runiq on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:19AM (#27013883)
> but it doesn't prevent you from linking the problematic program directly with libfoobar-1.0.3

I feel that patchelf[0] is an ingenious little tool for exactly that purpose that isn't getting enough love. Not as useful for FOSS stuff, but it's been really useful for the times I had to relink proprietary things on our cluster in order to patch a security vulnerability or two.

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf

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