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Re:Single binary executable packages by admax88qqq on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:46PM (#30531108)
Pretty good. Glibc does update occasionally. I've hit issues in the past trying to run old proprietary binaries that required libc.so.5

But yeah that's pretty rare tbh.

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Re:Single binary executable packages by BeeOnRope on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:22PM (#30533363)
The major library version number (e.g., 5 vs 6) isn't enough: the symbols even within lib.so.6 are versions and some may update every glibc version, so in general you may have problems building against a new libc 6 then running on a system with an old libc 6 (you'll get a runtime error from the dynamic loader complaining a missing versioned symbol).
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Re:Single binary executable packages by admax88qqq on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:48PM (#30545003)
Yay for "semantic versioning" lol.
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