Check glibc version for a particular gcc compiler

Question

I have two gcc compilers installed on my system, one is gcc 4.1.2 (default) and the other is gcc 4.4.4. How can I check the libc version used by

Answer 1

even easier

use ldd --version

This should return the glibc version being used i.e.

$ ldd --version

ldd (GNU libc) 2.17
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

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which is the same result as running my libc library

$ /lib/libc.so.6 


GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.17, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

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