Re: [musl] Big thanks to musl developers.

[naruto canada <narutocanada@gmail.com>]

On 3/1/22, Rodolfo Câmara Villordo <rodolfovillordo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the noob question. Why compiling the libc with -O0 is "a thing"
> to you? I can only imagine reasons surrounding security research, is that
> your use case?

Nothing to do with my job or anything of the sort.
It is just a hobiit, I have been compiling and maintain my own linux stuff for
as long as the site LFS started (about 22 years).
With gcc-2.7.x and libc5, you can compile the whole distro in an hour,
Nowadays, it take me 24 hours on a 4 cores machine.
I can't remember exactly which version of glibc or linux started requiring -O2
So I ended compiling the whole thing in -O2,
otherwise they would simply refuse to compile.
It is still the same with the linux kernel. (I've just tried it)
Just to be rebelious and fun, I manage to compile the whole thing except
the kernel and bootloader (syslinux still requires at least -O1).
Anyway, Thanks for listening to a old man's ramblings.

>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022, 04:29 naruto canada <narutocanada@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi
>>
>> Big thanks to musl developers. You guys have done a good job.
>> I've managed to port most of my desktop over to musl.
>> It is currently compiling itself within qemu :)
>> on x86_64 real machine :)
>> Once qemu is ported, the other targets are much easier.
>> It takes surprising little effort to port most packages.
>> It took me only about a week. Very little changes was needed.
>> I was only forced to upgrade a few packages.
>> The first time in 22 years,
>> that I was able to compile libc with -O0 and not -O2 :)
>> Thanks.
>>
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