Gentoo Archives: gentoo-musl

From: Felix Janda <felix.janda@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-musl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:12:31
Message-Id: 20161223181102.GA598@nyan
In Reply to: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use? by Aric Belsito
1 Aric Belsito wrote:
2 > This is mostly a question for Blueness, but in the Gentoo repository, we
3 > currently have sys-libs/fts-standalone -- but I cannot link elfutils
4 > against it (build-time issues).
5 >
6 > On the other hand, there is the musl-fts library
7 > (https://github.com/pullmoll/musl-fts) which does work (and I currently
8 > have in the musl-extras repository) but as Blueness put the
9 > fts-standalone package into the gentoo repository, is the maintainer,
10 > and wrote it, it seemed like a bad idea to use musl-fts instead. I'd
11 > like some advice.
12 >
13 > The main reason I ask is because in updating sys-fs/f2fs-tools, it gains
14 > the sys-libs/libselinux dependency, which won't build on musl without
15 > fts. IcedTea, Chromium, and SystemTap also require elfutils.
16
17 A while ago, I've reported to blueness the duplication between
18 musl-fts and fts-standalone:
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20 https://github.com/blueness/fts-standalone/issues/1
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22 Thanks for bringing this up again (and your working ebuild for it).
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25 I also wanted to note that there is now a bug for elfutils with musl:
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27 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602126
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29 Felix

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Re: [gentoo-musl] Which FTS library to use? "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>