Use both static and dynamically linked libraries in gcc

Question

I need to distribute a binary that will run on as many x86 Linux distributions as possible. That means that I have to statically link some libraries, like glibc, because the

Answer 1

It should be noted that, under Linux, you can only (safely) statically link a library if none of the dynamic libraries depend on it. This means that if you're using any dynamic libraries at all, you can forget about statically linking libc. Just use a fairly old version to build against for libc's case; libc has maintained strong ABI backwards-compatiblity over the years.