Monthly Archives: July 2022
Thoughts about musl standalone compatibility packages for Gentoo (controversial!)
Thoughts about musl standalone compatibility packages for Gentoo Hi! With me and listout having plowed through a lot of build time issues with musl libc we have started to face some larger issues and noticed some patterns. The issue One … Continue reading
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 4
Hi! This is my weekly report for week 4 of Summer of Code. This week I’ve done some more ebuild development and fixed some more build-time bugs for various packages. We’ve also discussed adding *-standalone compatibility libraries for musl.
Musl support expansion for supporting GNOME desktop [part 3]
Now the GNOME desktop can be emerged on musl profile. The installation of the full GNOME desktop on musl was quite uneventful. I didn’t come across anything that would require patching. However, one thing I’ve noticed is that GNOME on … Continue reading
Musl support expansion for supporting GNOME desktop [part 2]
I finally have some time to catch up on my blog backlogs. The second week of the coding period for this year’s Google Summer of Code has come to an end. Nothing interesting happened this week, just the continuation of … Continue reading
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 3
This is my report for the third week of Gentoo GSoC. In my proposal it says this week will be dedicated to getting Plasma desktop and core functionality working, but it already seems to run just fine by fixing the … Continue reading
Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 2
Hello! This is my second weekly report for my Google Summer of Code project regarding musl support expansion. My work this week has been pretty similar to the first, ie. I’ve mostly fixed build time bugs caused by GNU extensions. … Continue reading
Week 3 Report for RISC-V Support for Gentoo Prefix
The 3rd week of my GSoC project has come to an end and this is the brief overview of the progress so far. To start with, most of the week has been spent on testing, we have decided upon a … Continue reading