[OE-core] [oe] initial support for musl libc with OE/Yocto Project

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On 26 March 2014 22:12, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 26 March 2014 22:04, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There were interest in other threads in having musl as an alternative
>>> to eglibc/uclibc that we already have in OE, in that direction I have
>>> poured in my on and off work and put it into a contrib tree
>>
>> Blimey Khem that was quick. :)
>>
>
> Agreed!
>
> I wonder if it's worth splitting this out into its own layer though

I thought about it and since class/conf changes that need to go in into OE-core
first I kept it as it is (lazyness too). I think once the core support
is available in OE-core
we can spin the recipes into a layer of its own.

> (with fixes done via bbappends) so that it's easy for multiple people
> to contribute to. It would also mean it doesn't need rebasing onto
> master all the time.
>
> I'd definitely like to get involved with this. In particular I can
> ensure opkg (both current release and development branch) work with
> musl and see if some of my preferred software from meta-oe will build
> (vim, htop, etc).

start with what we have. Once master opens up I would propose the needed
changes to OE-core and spin a layer

>
> Many thanks,
>
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