Re: issues with headers?

[Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:02 PM, stephen Turner
<stephen.n.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying various ways of compiling a musl system using gcc and
> found that GCC-4.7.3 does not seem to want to compile against musl headers.
> I install the linux headers in /usr/include then i install musl and move its
> headers to /usr/include. then i specify -I/usr/include to gcc and it errors
> every time (technically its /cross/usr/include as i have a separated env
> from my host system) The same compile works fine against musl libs but not
> the headers. The only change made from a working to a non-working system
> appears to be the use of the musl generated headers.
>
> In the scripts to build a musl toolchain (such as gregorr) the header
> location is not specified but sysroot is used (which obviously isn't linking
> against the headers)  I first started to see this issue when chroot'ing into
> a newly created musl gcc system.
>
> Is musl suitable as a stand alone libc replacement? Should i not be building
> against musl headers? If there is any reports or details you want me to
> provide please let me know.

You want to use a chroot or a VM with Musl if you are having these
issues. Sabotage or Alpine are good options. It will save a lot of
grief. Otherwise you are doing somethnig wrong that is hard to
diagnose without much moer info.

Justin