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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:32:31PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> I'm trying to install musl (x86) on an old laptop. |
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...and getting nowhere. Can I have some guidance on filing a bug report |
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on bugzilla? Is the 32-bit libmusl distro a "hosted project"? Using... |
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http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/musl/stage3-i686-musl-vanilla-20180304.tar.bz2 |
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...I run into a "chicken-and-egg-problem". According to the HOWTO |
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http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/musl/HOWTO step 5... |
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5) Okay now we can update. ***IF WE TRY TO UPDATE WITHOUT THE OVERLAY, |
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WE GET A BUNCH OF DOWNGRADES TO EBUILDS THAT ARE SLIGHTLY BROKEN ON MUSL |
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AND WILL NOT BUILD.*** |
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But to get the overlay we first have to do step 3... |
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3) We need to get git in order to add the overlay. Unfortunately, right |
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now we can't build git with gnupg support so do the following: |
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echo "dev-vcs/git -gpg" >> /etc/portage/package.use |
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emerge -q layman dev-vcs/git |
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So I can't do an "emerge" without first setting up the overlay, but I |
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can't set up the overlay without first running "emerge" to build layman |
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and git. Do you see the problem? As per the comment on step 5 I get |
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several "ebuilds that are slightly broken on musl and will not build". |
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The main symptom is that some ebuilds have a dependancy that requires |
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"bindist" USE flag and some ebuilds require USE="-bindist" for the same |
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dependancy. See this thread, which is archived at... |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-embedded/message/38e4498aedc2817e96c57b13bc584030 |
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Attempting to build with either all "bindist" or all "-bindist" |
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results in breakages. |
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Proposed "Patch" |
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Please ship the stage-3 tarball complete with functional "layman" and |
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"git" pre-built. It may have been possible to emerge layman and git |
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against the standard portage tree in the past, but the portage tree is |
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dynamic, and that does not seem to work for me now. Given how crucial |
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"layman" and "git" are to the musl distro, they should be shipped with |
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the stage-3 tarball. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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