The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

As an end user I often patch the glibc version incompatibility away with https://github.com/corsix/polyfill-glibc

    $ ./polyfill-glibc --target-glibc=2.17 /path/to/my-program

This often leads to discovering new version incompatibilities in other libs. But as the article says others usually can be statically compiled.