alt Hacker NewsIf you can figure out your own ELF loader, you can figure out how to build a partially static executable that doesn't need this. You can mix static and dynamic linking. Build tooling around that is just shit.
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shevy-java • today at 8:09 AM
Can you really mix it? When I break or remove a shared lib, some binaries no longer work. With static libs or even better, e. g. statically compiled busybox, I don't have that issue, so I disagree on the claim that mixing solves everything as such. I keep the basic toolchain I use as statically compiled variant. The whole system works better if I can break it less easily.
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In this scenario, I'll have to choose which libc I want to run. These won't be portable Linux binaries in the true sense of the word; I'll have to leave Alpine out, and possibly Android, which I don't want.