From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2919 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LM Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl setup attempt Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:54:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5140CA2B.2060902@barfooze.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363348493 4777 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2013 11:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:54:53 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2920-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Mar 15 12:55:16 2013 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 1UGTEA-0002Cw-3i for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 25796 invoked by uid 550); 15 Mar 2013 11:54:51 -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 25788 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2013 11:54:51 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=uGpWNmtejj2qxNLxIlL5urBT1WfOH1p4MBqcGPPOZIE=; b=gnblX70FgIBHy3zFmgysG8LL01ibZBZ15XHGKoxa3BrV4jeJFr2SVtcx+lmCAAwSmo W0vipZUtxyh9HKm6XY70BTiArzbgE0/jbXfxYZdkJYqvRWHW9QJivKXpBgSHe7xKpccE dg+EN8XmIz0Qc7V5VhE10YOC//5Yz43PQpjSgEuGfKRDRwkErKTeWlLh7PmpcMvSVziD 6OvuboHNMgP3KkNtChyA55D9oPvdoYFWhsJxlXqsEzTUNWVtWUi7ERy6YWzw/1Z8inuC 9/1Lp1FCvvn0WU/UsrNOGhTMsRxDJg+q8QjWxhe1UIXxyHiFk7HSfkU0JHrYrN15ZO7f NceQ== X-Received: by 10.15.100.202 with SMTP id bn50mr17293761eeb.36.1363348479705; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:54:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5140CA2B.2060902@barfooze.de> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2919 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:49 PM, John Spencer wrote: > mostly finding portability bugs in programs, like missing include > directives, and then reporting the issue upstream > (and keep nagging them until they finally fix it). I have really mixed results with reporting portability bugs. More often than not, projects refuse to accept the bugs unless they're for platforms they officially support. I typically work with cross-platform software, but many of the cross-platform projects still only officially support a limited number of systems. Some of them have even been down-right nasty when I submit a patch to fix an issue for my platform. (Of course, I've run across some projects where the developers have been very nice too and fix things extremely quickly.) Am very curious if anyone else has had problems with this sort of thing and how you handle the situation. I'm currently looking into whether I can find enough Open Source implementations for the types of applications I need that avoid any projects where the developers are unfriendly. I further limited things down to applications that will run reasonably well on older systems. That cuts out a lot of Open Source applications (and libraries). Will see if I can still put together a coherent and useful system under those conditions.