You will, but glibc is a common dependency on a dynamic lib. It's nice to be able to compile something and target an old glibc so your program can run on old systems (and by "old" I'm just talking about LTS).

glibc is notoriously difficult to link against; most other typical libraries have simpler ABI.

This RH blog post is good intro on the topic: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/08/01/how-the-gnu-c-...