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Re:LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit by crotchfire on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:56AM (#39756363)
Having to use magically-blessed (what you call "official") binaries is not a viable strategy either.
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Re:LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit by mahkoh on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:14AM (#39756586)
If you don't know how to build a statically linked rust binary yourself, then why bother posting about the downsides of dynamic linking?

And obviously you can also link statically against musl on glibc systems. It's just another library.

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Re:LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit by cbolton on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:09AM (#39756527)
Come on, it's a really good strategy if you care about this (use the official binary, or make the effort of making a static binary yourself).

And even your linked binary will probably work in 10 years, these libraries are not likely to break. See for example https://superuser.com/questions/1450027/how-exactly-a-system...

I couldn't say the same thing about the LaTeX binaries:

  $ ldd /usr/bin/pdflatex
 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe347f7000)
 libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007e699d5bf000)
 libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007e699d5a3000)
 libkpathsea.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkpathsea.so.6 (0x00007e699d587000)
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007e699ce00000)
 libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007e699d4a0000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007e699d47e000)
 libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007e699ca00000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007e699d624000)
libpng, libz, libkpathsea, libstdc++ are much more likely to break than glibc.

  $ ldd /usr/bin/lualatex
 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe4f8d6000)
 libtexlua53.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtexlua53.so.5 (0x00007eccb87c1000)
 libzzip-0.so.13 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzzip-0.so.13 (0x00007eccb9392000)
 libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007eccb8786000)
 libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007eccb86b7000)
 libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007eccb9376000)
 libkpathsea.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkpathsea.so.6 (0x00007eccb8699000)
 libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007eccb85b2000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007eccb8592000)
 libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007eccb8200000)
 libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007eccb8458000)
 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007eccb8138000)
 libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007eccb842f000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007eccb93c5000)
 libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007eccb80c2000)
 libbrotlidec.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007eccb80b4000)
 libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007eccb8091000)
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PS: you could edit your previous comment and/or apologize for accusing me twice of forgery.

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