From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1299 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregor Richards Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Draft: musl promo materials Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:30:38 -0400 Message-ID: <5002011E.6070503@purdue.edu> References: <20120713181254.GA31206@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <5001E884.3020604@comcast.net> <20120714160641.25a2e7be@newbook> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342308662 29654 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2012 23:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Isaac Dunham To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1300-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jul 15 01:31:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SqBnh-0005Si-Ah for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:31:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 26577 invoked by uid 550); 14 Jul 2012 23:31:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 26569 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2012 23:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120714160641.25a2e7be@newbook> X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.388399 X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned: Yes Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1299 Archived-At: On 07/14/2012 07:06 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:45:40 -0700 > Charlie Kester wrote: > > >> It would be good to include a list of apps that have been >> successfully compiled with musl. No need to list every such app, >> just some representative ones that will help dispel any fears about >> the library's ability to replace glibc in the most common uses. > Somehow, listing compatible applications in PR does not > sound very encouraging, until you can run the really huge > suites/applications (I'm thinking of glibc-linked NVIDIA + Xorg, as was > recently done with a patched version of musl, Google Earth, or > native-built OpenOffice, Firefox/Chromium, the GIMP, Wine, Java, Mesa, > GNOME, KDE, maybe Xfce, R, GRASS, BRL-CAD, FreeCAD, TeX, GDAL...the > list isn't exclusive or a recommendation of the software, but it > should give an idea of the scale I'm talking about). If you say "can > run GCC 4.7, PHP, Xfbdev, Xfce 4.10, SDL, Tomoyo and grsec" (Xfce is in > Snowflake, the rest are the big names from sabotage), that sure seems > to reinforce the impression you're concerned about by virtue of > omission. > I'd prefer to see a link to "further information and compatability" or > some such thing. > > Isaac Dunham > GIMP and XFCE work. I'm working on Firefox, but I believe it currently hits a bug in musl's dlopen, so I'm waiting on that fix. It compiles, it just doesn't launch (hyuk). I routinely run the complete pkgsrc suite through musl to see what works; the current test is ongoing, but here's the results of the most recent one, which unfortunately suffered from some bugs in my setup and so has some false build failures: Tried 10444, depfail 4489, depok 5955, nobuild 2454, testfail 336, success 3165 (53.1486%). Breakdown: http://sprunge.us/jgDO . MVD: http://sprunge.us/cjRK (Tried = packages attempted, depfail = deps failed to build, nobuild = didn't build, testfail = built but tests failed, success = all tests passed, percentage is out of depok, MVD = most valuable dependencies, of which I have since fixed security/p5-Crypt-Rijndael and textproc/xmlrpc-c ) I suppose I'll post the results of the latest run on the mailing list once it's done. I've mainly stuck to the IRC channel. With valediction, - Gregor Richards