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This is one of the reasons that developing on your production OS is something of a best practice. Not specific to SBCL at all, but this general problem of dependencies not quite matching can bite you in a lot of ways.

People forgot this lesson when macbooks got popular for development, then had to relearn it by upending the ecosystem into containers.




It's also a reason for distributing software under a Free license. If people who use your software want to try running against a different libc or different versions of other dependencies, why not let them? You can always say you only support binaries that you distribute.




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