[musl] Re: Re: Musl gentoo development: browsers

[Michael Everitt <michael@2e0cer.net>]

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> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:54:48 -0600 From: "A. Wilcox" To:
> musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Re: Musl gentoo development:
> browsers On 15/02/2020 08:20, Brian Peregrine wrote: > I probably need to
> clarify the approach further. > The idea is to have something (more
> precisely a script) which is > intented specifically for gentoo (not all
> linux variants; not that the > pull is to the gentoo/musl repo btw). Once
> that's ready, a binary can > be made. Speaking for our own distro, it can
> be used on the optional > usb stick
> (https://github.com/Sharrisii/TAZ_optional_usb_stick/tree/master/binaries
> > ). I assume these binaries can then also be shared and used with >
> non-gentoo based linux versions (if generic compiler flags are used, >
> which is also the idea). > > Interested people can work on improving the
> files in the pull > (https://github.com/gentoo/musl/pull/296 ) and then
> having these > improvements added to the pull. > > Adelie's firefox-esr
> version is 68.5.0, jakeogh's version (in pull) is > v.41 so Adelie's
> version is indeed newer. Current is v73, so still > needs to be improved
> it further. So yes, you could already switch this > in the pull. > The
> binary I used of Adelie (v52.9.0-r4, back in June 2019) didn't > work,
> and wasn't optimized for i686 cpu's (and also, Adelie linux is > based on
> abuild system rather then gentoo's portage system), so I am > somewhat
> cautious. That said, if the script is worked out further, > there may be
> no issues. The reason I linked to Ad?lie's build recipe is because you
> can use it as a starting point for writing an ebuild. You can also
> integrate our patch set to make your porting work easier. I didn't mean
> to imply you could directly copy what we did in to a Gentoo system. Best,
> --arw -- A. Wilcox (awilfox) Project Lead, Ad?lie Linux
> https://www.adelielinux.org
There is very active discussion of how best to move forward on IRC in the #gentoo-hardened and especially #gentoo-moz channels.
I don't think Anarchy as lead 'beta channel dev' sees this list, but is always active on getting newer versions working with musl
in the ::musl overlay. We remain very dependent on rust from smaeul's overlay, but I know gyakovlev is trying to integrate that
better into both ::musl and ::gentoo main repositories.

If there are active dev-hours, please let's not duplicate effort, and make use of the diversity of interests on the difficult
aspects of musl integration across the distros and platforms we share!

Thanks.
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