Re: [PACKAGE] musl libc

[Vincent Legoll]

>> We usually don’t use the “gcc” package directly in Guix.  Instead we use
>> “gcc-toolchain”, which also comes with a wrapper around the linker that
>> ensures that binaries are linked with libraries in the store, ensuring
>> that things generally just work™.
>>
>> I think more work would be needed to ensure that packages can actually
>> successfully be linked with musl, but I’m not at all familiar with this.
>> I had mixed success with a GCC ARM cross-compiler toolchain linking with
>> newlib, so I know that it’s not exactly obvious how to do this right,
>> but I find it hard to understand this.
>>
>> Have you tried building something that links with the libc provided by
>> this musl package instead of the GNU libc?  I’m not opposed to adding
>> the package, but I’d like it to be usable.

I'm not sure...

I built musl, made the sinit package use the musl-wrapper as CC,
and it worked (it builds => it works) but couldn't test that sinit as
replacement for pid 1...

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Vincent Legoll