I finally have some time to catch up on my blog backlogs.<\/p>\n
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 the previous week’s work, so I’ll keep it short and simple.<\/p>\n
As per my previous report, I worked further on debugging the librsvg crash.
\nEventually, I was successful in getting gnome-shell to work with latest librsvg
\nfrom ::gentoo, unfortunately, I still don’t know what the actual issue is. What
\nworked was increasing either gnome-shell, gjs or pixman’s stack size, and with
\nadvice from my mentor sam_ I have submitted a patch to increase gjs’s stack size
\non musl[1].<\/p>\n
I’ve started with using Gentoo’s package testing tools, initially, I went with
\npkg-testing-tools, as it was quite easy to set up and get going, unfortunately
\nI didn’t work quite well on musl due to multilib-strict not working on musl,
\nhence I had to move with tatt. So, now I’m learning to use tatt.<\/p>\n
My patch for samba has been merged and the patch for gnome-terminal is awaiting
\nreview. With that merged, it’ll be possible to using GNOME desktop (gnome-light)
\non musl.<\/p>\n
I had few extra hours at hand and used to try and compile firefox on musl. As of
\nnow (date), I’m unable to build firefox:rapid::gentoo with “+clang” or “+pgo”.
\nThe bug with clang with firefox has already been reported[2] and is being worked on
\nhowever I don’t know why “+pgo” is not working. In brief, to build firefox (as
\nof date) on musl one must use rust from ::musl, and turn off clang and lto flag,
\nprobably this will be fixed on newer releases.<\/p>\n
With that, I’ll conclude my report for the second week on Musl support expansion to
\nsupport the GNOME desktop. I’ll start with gnome extras from Monday and for the next
\ntwo weeks, I’ll be working on that. Hope to bring in new exciting findings next
\nweek and I’ll try to update the blog too.<\/p>\n
[1]: https:\/\/github.com\/gentoo\/gentoo\/pull\/26056<\/a> 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
\n[2]: https:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\/829033<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"