Hello all,<\/p>\n
This is my week 4 report on Modern C porting of Gentoo’s packages.<\/p>\n
Well nothing interesting to report this week, just following my proposal
\nand focused on -Wimplicit-int type of bug for the first half of the week
\nwhile moving to -Wimplicit-function-declaration.<\/p>\n
However, if you follow my PRs on github [1], you will notice that it
\nhappens I fix\/send patches bugs that are not per my proposal’s timeline.
\nThis happens because of multiple reasons, sometimes I randomly come
\nacross a bug that is requires some rather easy patch, some other times I
\ncome across a package that is not in the tracker listing bug and send in
\na patch. I’ve informed my mentor (Sam) about such situation, and he
\nacknowledged me taking bugs at random and diverting from my proposal
\nworkflow sometimes.<\/p>\n
As I keep solving bugs I’ve also set up a system with llvm profile which
\nI keep testing recent packages and my patches against. I do plan to at
\nleast make a desktop environment working on llvm profile. Currently I’ve
\ntried GNOME and Mate, both of them require some work, specially forcing
\nsome tools to GNU version compared to their LLVM counterpart. For
\nexample the gtk package currently cant be installed directly on llvm
\nprofile, it requires overriding the OBJCOPY to gnu objcopy from
\nllvm-objcopy and forcing the LD (or linker) to GNU bfd instead of lld
\nwhich is default linker in llvm. Not to mention there are bugs\/build
\nfailures occurring specifically when building with libcxx.<\/p>\n
Adhere to my proposal and work on more -Wimplicit-function-declaration
\nbugs.<\/p>\n
Hopefully I’ve have some spare time this week to do some more
\nexperiments on the llvm profile. Out of GNOME and Mate, the two desktop
\nenvironment I tested on the said profile, the mate meta package seems to
\nrequire less patches (only a couple of packages from the meta package)
\ncompared to GNOME. As in GNOME, Vala is still a blocker and another
\nimportant package (NetworkManager) is failing on llvm profile, most
\nprobably due to libcxx quirks.<\/p>\n
Till then, see yah!<\/p>\n
[1]: https:\/\/github.com\/gentoo\/gentoo\/pulls\/listout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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