[oe] [OE-core] Announcing meta-musl OE/Yocto layer supporting musl C library

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 05:50:38PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> musl <http://www.musl-libc.org/> is a newer implementation licensed
>> under MIT licence
>> A layer to support musl to supply your system C library as an
>> alternative to uclibc and eglibc/glibc  is now available at
>>
>> https://github.com/kraj/meta-musl
>>
>> README describes way to get going with it.
>>
>> Few things to note
>>
>> * Supports gcc 4.9 in OE not 4.8
>> * Current musl recipe is 1.1.4 based
>> * You need latest master of OE-Core
>> (106305227003761c3fc562c21bb859a5256f2b36) or          newer and
>> bitbake
>> * Its only able to build core-image-minimal
>> * core-image-minimal boots on qemuarm, qemuppc, qemumips, qemux86, qemux86-64
>>
>> I will send a request to add it to layerindex soon and then you should
>> be able to find it using
>> layerindex.opernembedded.org as well
>>
>> If you try it out on your hardware and/or have feedback I am
>> interested. Fork it from github, file bugs
>> send patches ....
>>
>> Happy hacking
>>
>
> core-image-minimal works with my configuration on qemuarm. It also successfully
> builds what will soon be released as opkg-0.2.3 and the recipe for toybox-0.4.9
> which I've recently created.
>
> I tried building core-image-full-cmdline as I think that would be good next step
> from core-image-minimal. I'm seeing failures in:
>
>   meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.42.9.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/libtirpc/libtirpc_0.2.4.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/iptables/iptables_1.4.21.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/libnfsidmap_0.25.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.20.0.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd_1.5.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/ethtool/ethtool_3.14.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/psmisc/psmisc_22.21.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/pax/pax_3.4.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps_3.2.8.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-25.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.4.2.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/cronie/cronie_1.4.11.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.148.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/at/at_3.1.14.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/iputils/iputils_s20121221.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.6.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/sudo/sudo_1.8.10p3.bb, do_compile
>   meta/recipes-extended/mc/mc_4.8.12.bb, do_compile
>
> I can share detailed logs if anyone wants them. I'll have a look and see if I
> can find some low hanging fruit amongst these which are easy to fix.
>


Thanks cool. Can you open a ticket on github with this information ?