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The problem
Some projects require newer C++ standards to build them. To keep the glibc dependency low you can
build a newer GCC version on an older distro and use it to compile the project.
This project however will now require a newer version of the libstdc++.so.6 library than available on that distro.
Bundling libstdc++.so.6 however will in most cases break compatibility with distros that have a newer library
version installed into their system than the bundled one. So blindly bundling the library is not reliable.
By the way, while this is primarily an issue with libstdc++.so.6 in some rare cases this might also occur with libgcc_s.so.1.
That's because both libraries are part of GCC.
The solution
You would have to know the library version of the host system and decide whether to use a bundled library or not before the
application is started. This is exactly what the patched AppRun binary does.
It will search for usr/optional/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6 and usr/optional/libgcc_s/libgcc_s.so.1 inside the AppImage or AppDir.
If found it will compare their internal versions with the ones found on the system and prepend their paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
if necessary.