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Hi folks |
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Week 3 of Google Summer of Code 2022 has come to an end, and with that, |
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I’m here with my third weekly report. I’ve made quite some progress in |
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getting GNOME desktop on musl profile. |
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First off I now have, in fact, anyone can have the GNOME desktop with |
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musl on Gentoo Linux. The installation of the full GNOME desktop on musl |
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was quite uneventful. I didn’t come across anything that would require |
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patching. However, one thing I’ve noticed is that GNOME on musl doesn’t |
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seem to work very well with -wayland flag turned on globally. So if you |
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do plan on running GNOME on musl, make sure to have +wayland. Other than |
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that I don’t think there’s much to add. |
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On the other hand one can now install MATE desktop, which comes very |
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close to GNOME 2, on musl too. It was a part of my proposal, and with a |
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couple of spare hours at hand, I decided to try to emerge the mate meta |
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package. I did face two issues which are patched [1][2] and one of the |
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patches has been submitted upstream[3]. The two packages that needed |
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patching for getting MATE to install were mate-power-manager and |
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mate-sensors-applet. |
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The package mate-power-manager needed two patches, the header file |
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execinfo.h is not available in musl and hence need to be surrounded in |
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include guards so that it’s only included in ulibc and glibc systems, |
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secondly there were some debug backtrace functions that too needed to be |
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run on only ulibc and glibc system hence similar to the execinfo patch, |
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I surrounded those instances of the function in include guards. Funnily, |
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the mate-sensors-applet package needed some include guards to be |
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removed. There were include guards around stdio.h and local.h, for some |
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reason the `ifdef` condition around local.h was getting evaluated as |
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false on musl, resulting in local.h not being included which in turn |
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resulted in the build failing. A similar issue was reported earlier[4] |
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but was unfortunately never patched. |
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However, I didn’t get much time to test MATE desktop so some run time |
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bugs can be expected. |
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For the next week I’ll begin testing MATE and maybe setup GRS so that |
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other people and mentors can reproduce my environment easily (thanks to |
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blueness). |
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Hope this is a concise report for Week 3. I’ll update the blog as soon |
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as the blog site comes up again, it’s down for now. Till then, see ya. |
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[1]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26198 |
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[2]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26197 |
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[3]: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-sensors-applet/pull/128 |
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[4]: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-sensors-applet/issues/123 |
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Regards, |
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