Re: [PACKAGE] musl libc

[ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>]

Hi,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> writes:

>>> We usually don’t use the “gcc” package directly in Guix.  Instead we use
>>> “gcc-toolchain”, which also comes with a wrapper around the linker that
>>> ensures that binaries are linked with libraries in the store, ensuring
>>> that things generally just work™.
>>>
>>> I think more work would be needed to ensure that packages can actually
>>> successfully be linked with musl, but I’m not at all familiar with this.
>>> I had mixed success with a GCC ARM cross-compiler toolchain linking with
>>> newlib, so I know that it’s not exactly obvious how to do this right,
>>> but I find it hard to understand this.
>>>
>>> Have you tried building something that links with the libc provided by
>>> this musl package instead of the GNU libc?  I’m not opposed to adding
>>> the package, but I’d like it to be usable.
>
> I'm not sure...
>
> I built musl, made the sinit package use the musl-wrapper as CC,
> and it worked (it builds => it works) but couldn't test that sinit as
> replacement for pid 1...

I was wondering what happened to musl? Are there any problems left,
anything the people you have been working with can help you to solve? I
had the impression it was almost ready.

> -- 
> Vincent Legoll