re: musl setup attempt

[LM <lmemsm@gmail.com>]

John Spencer wrote:
>please see http://wiki.musl-libc.org/Getting_started .
>it has detailed instructions about how to use musl from /home.
>after installation, the key point is to use "CC=musl-gcc" when running configure scripts.

I am using a custom, portable build system that sets up the
environment, automates the
builds and handles install and uninstall of packages to a specified
location (in this case
within my home directory).  The build system settings include
CC=musl-gcc, CPP=musl-gcc and
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are set to only point to the paths where the musl
include and library files
are located.  I'm also use -static.

Some of the applications, like diffh, diction, bzip2 are building and
running fine with musl.
If I check objdump -p, I see a different library when built with musl
than I do when I build
them with gcc.

>also note that many programs need patches because they're using non-portable constructs.
>here you can find build instructions for some programs:
>https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/tree/master/pkg

Not seeing any patches referenced for xz:
https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/blob/master/pkg/xz

Isaac Dunham wrote:
>If that were the issue, you could not run anything. The loader is specified by the specfile
>musl-gcc uses, and it's what make the program run.  If libraries are missing, the program will >generally fail to run (depending on your settings). So it's probably something else.

The applications that are showing errors on my system include programs from xz,
wavpack, libpaper and speex.

Some programs do appear to be running, so likely it is something else.

>...but it would probably be most helpful if you installed strace...

Am not very familiar with strace, but I ran it on some of the programs
that were displaying errors.
The stderr results from using strace on wavpack were:

execvc ("./wavpack, ["./wavpack"],[/* 30 vars */]) = -1  EIO
(Input/output error)
dup(2)                                             = 3
fcntl64 (3,F_GETFL)                                = 0x8001 (flags
O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
close(3)                                           = 0
write (2, "strace: exec: Input/output error"..., 33 strace: exec:
Input/output error
) = 33
exit_group(1)                                      = ?

The other programs that displayed the same error had very similar
output using strace.

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Laura