superkuh • 2 days ago

As an end user I often patch the glibc version incompatibility away with https://github.com/corsix/polyfill-glibc

    $ ./polyfill-glibc --target-glibc=2.17 /path/to/my-program
This often leads to discovering new version incompatibilities in other libs. But as the article says others usually can be statically compiled.

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vlovich123 • 2 days ago

Wow. This is huge. This patch doesn’t risk weird runtime errors due to missing polyfills or anything? Does it risk polyfilling irrelevant functions that aren’t referenced and bloating?

therein • 2 days ago

Very cool. Glad someone finally made this.