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This is a genuine issue, and it takes some work to avoid.

I typically use an older distribution as my build box: this means that the dependencies pulled in by the interpreter are older versions, and when it runs on a newer distribution, the backward compatibility for libraries will ensure it works ... usually.

I've messed about with using a completely independent build tree for this: something that depends on libc/libm/etc only from the OS, and all other dependencies are part of my build. That seems like it works pretty universally, but it's a lot of work.

I've been meaning to look into leveraging the Flatpak runtimes for this: they seem like they have pretty similar concerns.



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