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saagarjha on March 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

Glibc does not really support static linking.

alexeldeib on March 25, 2020 [–]

Kind of my point — so much software depends on it, it’s difficult to statically link more things.

needs on March 25, 2020 | [–]

Musl is a pretty good replacement, I have been using it for years without any troubles.

alexeldeib on March 25, 2020 | | [–]

I like Musl, but it is a source of pain at times too: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/64924 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/33554

Admittedly you could put that on the Kubernetes folks, but the same problem doesn't exist with glibc.

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