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Can quickinstall/binstall be kept from giving unusable binaries when libc is old? #1392

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Thanks, it looks like glibc 2.17 is enough.

Supporting eglibc isn't something I'd consider given that it is already merged into glibc 2.19

Should cargo-quickinstall be enhanced so that, for systems that have glibc/eglibc, it checks the version and automatically gets the musl build if the version is lower than supported by the prebuild binaries? I don't know how practical this would be or if there is a reason it has not been done, but I'd be interested to attempt implementing such a feature if you think it may be a good idea.

I plan to implement this in cargo-binstall and I think goblin can be used for this cargo-bins/cargo-binstall#1332

cargo-quickinstall would stay as simple as possibl…

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