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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-musl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 19:07:55
Message-Id: d58fff85-e523-8771-6c57-64c005ed834a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use? by Felix Janda
1 On 12/23/16 1:11 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
2 > Aric Belsito wrote:
3 >> This is mostly a question for Blueness, but in the Gentoo repository, we
4 >> currently have sys-libs/fts-standalone -- but I cannot link elfutils
5 >> against it (build-time issues).
6 >>
7 >> On the other hand, there is the musl-fts library
8 >> (https://github.com/pullmoll/musl-fts) which does work (and I currently
9 >> have in the musl-extras repository) but as Blueness put the
10 >> fts-standalone package into the gentoo repository, is the maintainer,
11 >> and wrote it, it seemed like a bad idea to use musl-fts instead. I'd
12 >> like some advice.
13 >>
14 >> The main reason I ask is because in updating sys-fs/f2fs-tools, it gains
15 >> the sys-libs/libselinux dependency, which won't build on musl without
16 >> fts. IcedTea, Chromium, and SystemTap also require elfutils.
17 >
18 > A while ago, I've reported to blueness the duplication between
19 > musl-fts and fts-standalone:
20 >
21 > https://github.com/blueness/fts-standalone/issues/1
22 >
23 > Thanks for bringing this up again (and your working ebuild for it).
24 >
25 >
26 > I also wanted to note that there is now a bug for elfutils with musl:
27 >
28 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602126
29 >
30 > Felix
31 >
32
33 I don't have any strong feeling about musl-fts vs fts-standalone. What
34 are your preferences and why?
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Re: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use? Felix Janda <felix.janda@××××××.de>