Category Archives: musl KDE

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 →

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 →

This day has been mostly dedicated to reinstalling my musl development desktop. Throughout this project I’ve been putting various small patches into /etc/portage/patches, as well as “make install:ing” some things and forgetting about them.

As I used the #gentoo-soc-musl channel as a mini-blog Blueknight suggested to me that I’d do small daily blog posts instead. Today I’ve worked on a lot of different and seemingly unrelated stuff. To start with I fixed plocate to … Continue reading →

OpenRC and the hidden segfault Hi! This time we will take a look at a rabbit hole involving debugging segmentation faults caused at the init(8) boot stage. I first noticed something was wrong when seeing this in my boot messages: … Continue reading →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →