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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:37:56 -0300
From: "Matias A. Fonzo" <selk@...gora.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: issues with headers?

El Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:22:28 -0500
stephen Turner <stephen.n.turner@...il.com> escribió:
> looks like i missed the patch for m4, again my mistake sorry.

Question, which patch of m4?.
 
> thanks,
> stephen
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:01 PM, stephen Turner
> <stephen.n.turner@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > It appears like gmp doesn't play nice with musl hosts? a musl
> > target is fine allowing a cross environment to work but not a pure
> > musl evnironment or specifying musl as the host.
> >
> > I created a cross compiler successfully but using the cross
> > compiler to "recreate itself" hasn't worked when rebuilding gmp as
> > a part of the process. It could be me, everything up to this point
> > has been apparently but i was hoping someone could chime in and let
> > me know if they have compiled gmp on a native musl system or if it
> > requires a patch i missed or some gnu code?
> >
> > thanks,
> > stephen
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:49 PM, stephen Turner <
> > stephen.n.turner@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >> GMP errors out with "invalid configuration 'non-pc-linux-musl' not
> >> recognized. Im using the --target and --host flags i686-linux-musl
> >> and --build i686-linux-gnu.  I also tried switching to a chroot
> >> musl env and running a plain configure on gmp only and it
> >> complains the compiler cant create executables which i know to be
> >> false.
> >>
> >> Will GMP compile on a musl system?
> >> Google search showed one other person with the issue but no answer.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> stephen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, stephen Turner <
> >> stephen.n.turner@...il.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It looks like your right, I just ran a compile specifying musl
> >>> headers and this time it worked. I need to review my process yet
> >>> again and see what changed that fixed this issue.
> >>>
> >>> I new this wouldn't be easy but man i didn't expect it to feel
> >>> this finicky or fickle.
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>> stephen
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Justin Cormack <
> >>> justin@...cialbusservice.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:02 PM, stephen Turner
> >>>> <stephen.n.turner@...il.com> wrote:
> >>>> > I have been trying various ways of compiling a musl system
> >>>> > using gcc
> >>>> and
> >>>> > found that GCC-4.7.3 does not seem to want to compile against
> >>>> > musl
> >>>> headers.
> >>>> > I install the linux headers in /usr/include then i install
> >>>> > musl and
> >>>> move its
> >>>> > headers to /usr/include. then i specify -I/usr/include to gcc
> >>>> > and it
> >>>> errors
> >>>> > every time (technically its /cross/usr/include as i have a
> >>>> > separated
> >>>> env
> >>>> > from my host system) The same compile works fine against musl
> >>>> > libs
> >>>> but not
> >>>> > the headers. The only change made from a working to a
> >>>> > non-working
> >>>> system
> >>>> > appears to be the use of the musl generated headers.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > In the scripts to build a musl toolchain (such as gregorr) the
> >>>> > header location is not specified but sysroot is used (which
> >>>> > obviously isn't
> >>>> linking
> >>>> > against the headers)  I first started to see this issue when
> >>>> chroot'ing into
> >>>> > a newly created musl gcc system.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Is musl suitable as a stand alone libc replacement? Should i
> >>>> > not be
> >>>> building
> >>>> > against musl headers? If there is any reports or details you
> >>>> > want me
> >>>> to
> >>>> > provide please let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>> You want to use a chroot or a VM with Musl if you are having
> >>>> these issues. Sabotage or Alpine are good options. It will save
> >>>> a lot of grief. Otherwise you are doing somethnig wrong that is
> >>>> hard to diagnose without much moer info.
> >>>>
> >>>> Justin
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >

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