Description
Since todds supports static builds, it is possible to generate a binary that contains all of the dependencies. The remaining issue has always been glibc. So far, we have been building binaries using increasingly older Linux distributions, in the hopes of finally finding a combination that works for everyone.
This is time consuming, as it requires setting up a new VM and figuring out how to compile todds in that case. Also, lately we have been reaching a point where using even older distros would mean switching from GCC 13 to older versions, which could potentially cause performance impacts. We need an alternative which addresses these problems.
One potential way to address all of this would be to use crosstool-ng. This is explained in the "Setup 2" part of this excellent Stackoverflow response: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52550158
This setup should give us freedom to choose which glibc version to use without requiring a VM.