Category Archives: Modern C Package Porting

Hello all, hope you’re doing well. This is my week 12 report for my project “Porting Gentoo’s packages to modern C” Similar to last week I took up bugs from the tracker randomly and patched them, sending patch upstream whenever … Continue reading →

Hello all, hope you’re doing well. This is my week 11 report for my project “Porting Gentoo’s packages to modern C” Similar to last two weeks I took up bugs from the tracker randomly and patched them, sending patch upstream … Continue reading →

Hello all, I’m here with my week 10 report of my project “Porting gentoo’s packages to modern C” So apart from the usual patching of packages from the tracker the most significant work done this week is getting GNOME desktop … Continue reading →

Hello all, hope you’re doing well. This is my week 9 report for my project “Porting Gentoo’s packages to modern C” Similar to last week, I picked up bugs at random and started submitting patches. But this time I made … Continue reading →

Much of this based from the incredible guide by user (and my mentor) Juippis and his work over at The ultimate testing system with lxd. In fact most of what comes next comes directly from Juippis himself. The reason for … Continue reading →

Hello all, I’m here with my week 8 report on Modern C porting of Gentoo’s packages. Testing environments are set. I now have three environments to test my PRs on. – GCC 13 with glibc – Clang-16 with llvm profile … Continue reading →

Hello all. First of all, I would like to give the good news of passing the Mid-Term evaluation. My mentor/s have provided me some valuable advice that I would like to incorporate in my work in the following weeks ahead. … Continue reading →

Hello all, This week I couldn’t do much as I caught a bit of cold and fell ill. But I’m doing much better now and will begin working again starting this week. I plan on making up for last weeks … Continue reading →

I’m writing this report on 13th July, almost two week late. See week 6 report for that, I had fallen a bit sick. Hello all, this is my week 5’s report for my project “Porting Gentoo’s packages to Modern C”. … Continue reading →

Hello all, This is my week 4 report on Modern C porting of Gentoo’s packages. Well nothing interesting to report this week, just following my proposal and focused on -Wimplicit-int type of bug for the first half of the week … Continue reading →