This is the heart of the problem

Posted Feb 14, 2014 21:35 UTC (Fri) by jimparis (guest, #38647)
In reply to: This is the heart of the problem by Cyberax
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

> Wrong. glibc is THE most problematic library in the Linux stack. Bar none.
>
> I can trivially package all other libraries along with my application. ALL of them (well, except maybe some libcrazy that does something perverted with ld).

Joey Hess seems to claim that shipping glibc with your application is also not hard: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/completely_linux_distributi...

This is the heart of the problem

Posted Feb 14, 2014 23:50 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

You can realistically do it only by using Docker-like containers or some deep linker magic.

This is the heart of the problem

Posted Feb 17, 2014 21:52 UTC (Mon) by jimparis (guest, #38647) [Link]

Does that mean that you didn't read the link, that his approach doesn't work, or that you just don't consider it realistic? It seems pretty straightfoward to me: ship glibc and ensure that you execute your binaries through the shipped dynamic linker. I'm curious to know why you don't consider that acceptable?