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  • That's a pretty comprehensive answer +1 Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 22:44
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    Shell: In particular, Debian does not use bash, and since that greatly mitigated the Shellshock vulnerability on Debian systems, I cannot imagine it changing in the immediate future. Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 4:32
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    Also, if you want to ship binaries, link them statically. Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 6:58
  • Why is "instruction set" called a "bonus"? If you distribute in binary form, you really do need to consider which ISAs you'll be compiling for. You might not care for m68k users, but it's hard to ignore ARM, IA32 and X86_64 at least. Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 12:33
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    This answer is unnecessarily pessimistic towards static linking. Static link is the answer, and in many cases it just works, AFAIK. Commented Sep 7, 2015 at 12:58