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| From: | listout <brahmajit.xyz@×××××.com> |
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| To: | gentoo-soc <gentoo-soc@l.g.o> |
| Cc: | sam <sam@g.o>, dilfridge <dilfridge@g.o> |
| Subject: | [gentoo-soc] Week 6 Report for Musl support expansion to support GNOME desktop |
| Date: | Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:01:59 |
| Message-Id: | 20220724135713.ogncv3lnnqmeudul@gmail.com |
| 1 | Hey there folks, hope you guys doing well. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | With the end of week 6 I'm here again with my weekly report. Before |
| 4 | beginning I would like to address that for the past week I've not |
| 5 | worked on Desktop Environment stuff at all, mainly focused on fixing |
| 6 | opened bug reports on Gentoo bugzilla musl tracker. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | However I've also been quite busy moving my main work systems to musl. |
| 9 | For work I've to use ESP-IDF SDK that comes with some binaries for |
| 10 | compilers, debugging, and flashing Xtensa bases ESP32 chips. Those |
| 11 | binaries are not compatible with musl. So with help from my mentor I set |
| 12 | up a Arch Linux glibc chroot environment. Having a chroot environment is |
| 13 | quite handy to be honest. It keeps my main system clean and I easy |
| 14 | reproduce the environment on other setups. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Coming to GSoC's work, I've came across a run time bug on xterm that |
| 17 | would make xterm fail to start with 'open ttydev: I/O error' [1]. I've |
| 18 | patched [2] it and would upstream it soon. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | I tried installing Cinnamon Desktop just for the sake of it and it was |
| 21 | based on GNOME. Only the Cinnamon control center needed patching, but it |
| 22 | seems like the Cinnamon has the same problem as GNOME with Xorg on musl. |
| 23 | Rendering only happens after switching tty, may be it might be similar |
| 24 | to the race condition on mutter [3]. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | But just to put it in brief here are the things I've tried patching: |
| 27 | |
| 28 | - dd rescue [4] |
| 29 | - lightdm [5] [6] |
| 30 | - abiword [7] |
| 31 | - xterm [2] |
| 32 | - libhugetlbfs [8] |
| 33 | - libbtbb [9] |
| 34 | - suite3270 [10] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Unfortunately I don't have anything more, been quite busy moving my main |
| 37 | system and getting the hang of musl. Hope I bring something more next |
| 38 | week. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/689080 |
| 41 | [2]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26523 |
| 42 | [3]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2103 |
| 43 | [4]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26455 |
| 44 | [5]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26469 |
| 45 | [6]: https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/pull/261 |
| 46 | [7]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26467 |
| 47 | [8]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26539 |
| 48 | [9]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26549 |
| 49 | [10]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26545 |
| 50 | -- |
| 51 | Regards, |
| 52 | listout |