Now the GNOME desktop can be emerged on musl profile. The installation of the full GNOME desktop on musl was quite
\nuneventful. I didn\u2019t come across anything that would require patching. However,
\none thing I\u2019ve noticed is that GNOME on musl doesn\u2019t seem to work very well with
\n-wayland flag turned on globally. So if you do plan on running GNOME on musl,
\nmake sure to have +wayland. Other than that I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much to add.<\/p>\n
Other than that one can now install the MATE desktop, which comes very close to
\nGNOME 2, on musl too. It was a part of my proposal, and with a couple of spare
\nhours at hand, I decided to try to emerge the mate meta-package. I did face two
\nissues which are patched [1][2] and one of the patches has been submitted
\nupstream[3]. The two packages that needed patching for getting MATE to install
\nwere mate-power-manager and mate-sensors-applet.<\/p>\n
The package mate-power-manager needed two patches, the header file execinfo.h is
\nnot available in musl and hence need to be surrounded in include guards so that
\nit\u2019s only included in ulibc and glibc systems, secondly there were some debug
\nbacktrace functions that too needed to be run on only ulibc and glibc system
\nhence similar to the execinfo patch, I surrounded those instances of the
\nfunction in include guards. Funnily, the mate-sensors-applet package needed some
\ninclude guards to be removed. There were include guards around stdio.h and
\nlocal.h, for some reason the `ifdef` condition around local.h was getting
\nevaluated as false on musl, resulting in local.h not being included which in
\nturn resulted in the build failing. A similar issue was reported earlier[4] but
\nwas unfortunately never patched.<\/p>\n
However, I didn\u2019t get much time to test MATE desktop so some run time bugs can
\nbe expected.<\/p>\n
For the next week, I\u2019ll begin testing MATE and maybe set up GRS so that other
\npeople and mentors can reproduce my environment easily (thanks to blueness).<\/p>\n
Hope this is a concise report for Week 3. I\u2019ll update the blog as soon as the
\nblog site comes up again, it\u2019s down for now. Till then, see ya.<\/p>\n
[1]: https:\/\/github.com\/gentoo\/gentoo\/pull\/26198<\/a> Now the GNOME desktop can be emerged on musl profile. The installation of the full GNOME desktop on musl was quite uneventful. I didn\u2019t come across anything that would require patching. However, one thing I\u2019ve noticed is that GNOME on … Continue reading
\n[2]: https:\/\/github.com\/gentoo\/gentoo\/pull\/26197<\/a>
\n[3]: https:\/\/github.com\/mate-desktop\/mate-sensors-applet\/pull\/128<\/a>
\n[4]: https:\/\/github.com\/mate-desktop\/mate-sensors-applet\/issues\/123<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"