How to get the dang thing to work (Was: Linux: How to statically link against system libs?)

[Kai Meyer]

On 04/26/2011 02:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Ok, so I guess statically linking against the stuff isn't the way to go, and
> apparently DLL hell is worse on linux. Sooo...What do I do?
>
> In the other thread, Spacen said: "The way to do this is to link against the
> oldest libc you need to
> support, thus making the binaries forward compatible"
>
> I know my way around Linux as a user, but with deeper system stuff like that
> I'm pretty much lost. I don't have a clue how to do what Spacen suggests or
> how to determine what version of libc I need. Can anyone help me out with
> that?
>
>

Can you backup, and help me understand what the first problem was? The 
one you thought was solvable by statically linking against glibc?

-Kai Meyer