Re: Guitarmidi and glibc static linking

The links make it clear why its a bad idea. Thanks
Gerald

On Fri, 2026-07-10 at 13:27 +0000, JFD Systems - jfd-systems at
proton.me wrote:
> Oops, forgot to include the list...
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> On Friday, 07/10/26 at 15:17 JFD Systems <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> Hi,
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> The best solutions I know concerning that issue with glibc is either
> code your application on debian, which rarely use the latest versions
> of packages (focus on stability), or install multiple versions of
> glibc and choose in your application/makefile. That second solution
> implies that your users would have to do the same if the version of
> their distro is lower than yours.
> https://www.tecmint.com/install-multiple-glibc-libraries-linux/
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> Of course you can statically link a lib, but that can be tricky...
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57476533/why-is-statically-linking-gl=
ibc-discouraged
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> Maybe other devs have better solutions I'd love to know ^^
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> Bests,
> Julien D.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Friday, 07/10/26 at 14:53
> gm-linuxaudio.privatize920-OGrP24aSwZHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org=C2=A0wrote:
> Hi,
> I have some users reporting that in trying to install the ubuntu
> versions of guitarmidi-lv2 on linux mint and other derivative distros
> they are having issues with the wrong glibc version.
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> Is it possible to statically link in glibc? Is it recommended or not?
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> Thanks