forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   With the same version of gcc, and glibc even - *without* the
   patches that SuSE supplies.

Then it is SuSE's fault that they apply patches that make things
incompatible.  So go blame them instead.

   If your argument is that building glibc isn't for the faint of
   heart and should be left to the experts, my question is why?

Because it is a integral part of the system, it can break your system
badly, it can make your system unbootable (due to a broken
/lib/ld.so.1 or whatever), etc, etc.

Cheers!