Comment by LtWorf
3 days ago
If you build on random developer's machines rather than a unified build environment you've already failed at so many things that the glibc problem is certainly not your biggest concern.
3 days ago
If you build on random developer's machines rather than a unified build environment you've already failed at so many things that the glibc problem is certainly not your biggest concern.
Regardless it's still a PITA to maintain an ancient distro as a build environment and the alternatives are hacky. It might be the best of the linux libraries but it's still not good.
No need if you are targeting a current linux distro. You only need to do that if you are targeting the ancient distro, in which case you need it around to actually test your software on it as well.