Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 1

Posted on June 21, 2022 by catcream

Gentoo musl Support Expansion for Qt/KDE Week 1

Hello!

In the first week of Summer of Code I’ve spent my time fixing some dependencies of the Plasma desktop, as well as having learnt a lot regarding tooling and workflow.

What I’ve accomplished this week is getting the Plasma desktop running, both with X11 and Wayland. For now it’s just a bare bones desktop with Konsole (terminal) and Dolphin (file manager) running. To get most of my glibc applications running under musl I’ve fixed flatpak-builder so that they can be run inside a Flatpak. I do consider Flatpak a workaround and I’ll definitely focus on getting applications ported to run natively on musl later during this project.

This far all of my patches has been patching build-time errors because they are easier to spot and fix, and I’ve been putting off the run-time bugs for later.

 

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Musl support expansion for supporting GNOME desktop

Posted on June 20, 2022 by listout

This is the first part of my blog for supporting GNOME desktop on musl profile. I’ll
try to update on weekly basis or post my weekly report here. Since this is
my first post I’ll start with a little bit of introduction.

Introduction

I’m listout ( you can find me on gitlab, github and IRC under this alias ). As
of now, I’m a junior firmware developer at a startup. I’ve been a Linux user for
about 6 years now and a GNOME user for about 3. I took part in Google Summer of
Code 2022 and as a part of that, I’ll be contributing to Gentoo by porting GNOME
for musl profile.

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Gentoo – Google Summer of Code

Posted on June 20, 2022 by blueknight

I am glad to mention that the work on the Gentoo / Google Summer of Code has started.

We have the following contributors that were selected:

  • Catcream
  • listout
  • hikari
  • wuyy

The projects that the contributors along with a group of mentors will be working on are:

  • musl support expansion (focusing on KDE)
  • musl support expansion (focusing on GNOME)
  • RISC-V support for Gentoo Prefix
  • Refining ROCm Packages in Gentoo

The Gentoo developers welcome all our selected contributors and are excited by the progress we are seeing. 

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