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by errordeveloper 4075 days ago
They don't have to, one can run static binary without any problems. It's just that most people keep throwing in a whole distro...
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iso8859-1 4075 days ago
You can't make a truly static binary with glibc, so almost no one has a toolchain that is able to do it.
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michaelmior 4075 days ago
What do you mean by "truly static"?
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iso8859-1 4062 days ago
One that doesn't try to load dynamic objects on runtime like glibc does, if you use certain functions.
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zobzu 4075 days ago
im not sure why one wouldnt want a whole distro tho - it makes debugging, testing, etc far easier.
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