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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by lizknope on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:10AM (#46764692)
15-30 years ago I managed a lot of commercial chip design EDA software that ran on Solaris and Linux. We had wrapper shell scripts for so many programs that used LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD to point to the specific versions of various libraries that each program needed. I used "ldd" which prints out the shared libraries a program uses.
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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by mkoubaa on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:29AM (#46764853)
Sounds painful. Better to distrib a separate bundle per platform and use RPATH
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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by ValdikSS on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:22AM (#46765956)
It you know what you're doing and scrupulous enough, you can package the software in a way that it works 25 years later.

https://xcancel.com/ValdikSS/status/1843044963443253678

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