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Hi folks, |
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The second week of coding period for this years Google Summer of Code has come |
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to an end. Nothing interesting happened this week, just the continuation of |
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previous weeks work, so I'll keep it short and simple. |
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As per my previous report, I worked further on debugging the librsvg crash. |
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Eventually I was successful in getting gnome-shell to work with latest librsvg |
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from ::gentoo, unfortunately I still don't know what the actual issue is. What |
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worked was increasing either of gnome-shell, gjs or pixman's stack size and with |
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advice from my mentor sam_ I have submitted a patch to increase gjs's stack size |
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on musl[1]. |
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I've started with using Gentoo's package testing tools, initially I went with |
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pkg-testing-tools, as it was quite easy to set up and get going, unfortunately |
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I didn't work quite well on musl due to multilib-strict not working on musl, |
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hence I had to move with tatt. So, now I'm learning to use tatt. |
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My patch for samba has been merged and the patch for gnome-terminal is awaiting |
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review. With that merged, it'll be possible to using GNOME desktop (gnome-light) |
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on musl. |
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I had few extra hours at hand and used to try and compile firefox on musl. As of |
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now (date), I'm unable to build firefox:rapid::gentoo with "+clang" or "+pgo". |
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The bug with clang with firefox has already been reported[2] and being worked on |
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however I don't know why "+pgo" is not working. In brief, to build firefox (as |
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of date) on musl one must use rust from ::musl, and turn off clang and lto flag, |
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probably this will be fixed on newer releases. |
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With that I'll conclude my report for second week on Musl support expansion to |
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support GNOME desktop. I'll start with gnome-extras from Monday and for the next |
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two weeks, I'll be working on that. Hope to bring in new exciting findings next |
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week and I'll try to update (or elaborate even further) the blog too. |
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[1]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26056 |
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[2]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/829033 |
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Regards, |
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