Monthly Archives: July 2022
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 7
This week has mostly been spent on testing applications and some further fixes to QtWebEngine. QtWebEngine is now PR:ed to ::gentoo and I’m waiting for comments. It seems to work just fine and all tests for Qutebrowser pass! (https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26611). Another … Continue reading
Daily blog july 28 by Catcream
Today worked on some different things. The first one was making another libexecinfo based on libunwind. The issue was that the current libexecinfo (resslinux/libexecinfo on github) sometimes segfaults. For me it segfaulted when emerging Emacs because temacs (Emacs bootstrap) used … Continue reading
Daily blog july 26 by Catcream
Today I’ve done pretty much the exact same thing as yesterday. I continued to fix some things with QtWebEngine and sent a PR to ::gentoo (yay!). I also tested a few more applications on my laptop but got really stuck … Continue reading
Daily blog july 25 by Catcream
Today I’ve filled in the midterm evaluation and continued to work on QtWebEngine to make it ::gentoo-ready. I’m pretty happy with most of the patches and I only need someone to look through them. I’ve also tested some core KDE … Continue reading
Week 6 Report for RISC-V Support for Gentoo Prefix
Hello All! Hope everyone is doing good, this is my report for the sixth week of Gentoo GSoC. After having a working prefix this week I dedicated on testing packages on prefix for EESSI package set. I also sent quite … Continue reading
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 6
Hi! This week has been mostly dedicated to QtWebEngine, a package that bundles Chromium, which in turn bundles a bunch of libraries (:D). It took a lot longer than I initially thought while planning GSoC, but nonetheless I finished all … Continue reading
Daily blog july 18 by Catcream
The first thing I did today was fixing my accountsservice patch, I used #ifndef on a function and it caused the package to not be buildable on glibc since #ifdef-checking only applies to macros, so the check was skipped causing … Continue reading
Week 5 Report for Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo
Week 5 is mainly about utilizing and testing the rocm.eclass I wrote — packagingi and testing the ROCm-5.1.3 libraries. I also began to land ROCm-5.1.3 toolchains in ::gentoo. However, new problems emerges, so I’m a bit behind schedule, so after … Continue reading
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 5
In my proposal I stated that this week should be dedicated to squashing bugs, getting test suites to pass and just getting the Plasma desktop itself to be “daily driver ready” (not the KDE apps). As the Plasma desktop basically … Continue reading
Week 5 Report for RISC-V Support for Gentoo Prefix
Hello Everyone! Hope you all are doing great, this is my report for the fifth week of Gentoo GSoC. We finally got a completely working Prefix for lp64d RISC-V profile with all the 3 stages compiling successfully. All the major … Continue reading