#musl — Public Fediverse posts

I've started a (private atm, will be rebased a few times) branch for the #musl locale project merge.

First some preliminaries. Bumping the Unicode character data from version 12 to version 17.

Only +10% size to iswalpha/iswpunct tables, +5% to upper/lower case mappings. About +20% to wcwidth tables, probably from all the emoji. 🙃

Just finished a PoC if i could bootstrap pkgsrc on my self-assembled minimal docker container.

Ingredients: skarnet-musl-toolchain. busybox-static, toybox-static, gawk, gsed, gtar, gmake, libz, libexpat, libxcrypt, libbsd, libmd, musl-{bsdcompat,fts,obstack,rpmatch}, and finally pkgsrc from netbsd.

after a few ins and outs, and learning the ropes, bootstrapping worked flawlessly.

shout out for the developers for their good work!

#docker #toybox #busybox #LFS #LFN #pkgsrc #linux #musl

@landley

unfortunately i dont know ppc but from the description and the code it looks like this is addressing heavy register utilization.

hmm ... userland vs kernelland ... it might be a (un-)common problem in the former but not (or almost never) in the latter.

i know that T2SDE also builds many architectures with both glibc and musl and also might have its own patches for it.

https://t2linux.com/architectures/

#gcc #linux #musl #lfs #t2sde

4/5 I thought of #LFS with #musl, but modern #Linux builds continue to increase in complexity over time. Multiple dependencies and languages are often required to build programs from source. Most Linux distributions appear to be moving away from support for older hardware.