Hi all,
Rich over at musl has expressed interest in moving their glibc
compatibility symbols into gcompat. Then libgcompat would become an
implicit DT_NEEDED on any software that has a DT_NEEDED of libc.so.6.
See below forwarded message from the musl list for more information.
Best,
--arw
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:16:51 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias(a)libc.org>
Subject: Re: [musl] Removing glibc from the musl .2 ABI
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:10:19PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
>> Just trying to make sure the community has a clear view of
what this
>> looks like before we jump in.
>
> Yes. This isn't a request to jump in, just looking at feasability and
> whether there'd be interest from your side. Being that ABI-compat
> doesn't actually work very well without gcompat right now, though, I
> think it might make sense. I'll continue to look at whether there are
> other options, possibly just transitional, that might be good too.
I meant: I want a clear view of the boundaries between musl and gcompat,
before we (Adélie / the gcompat team) jump in and start designing how we
want to handle all the new symbols we may end up with :)
If we go this route, I would think that gcompat could provide all
symbols which are not either public APIs (extensions you can
legitimately use in source) or musl-header-induced ABIs (for example
things like __ctype_get_mb_cur_max, which is used to define the
MB_CUR_MAX macro). This would include LFS64 as well as the "__xstat"
stuff, the other __ctype_* stuff, etc.
We also were considering setting up a dedicated gcompat site so that
the
community could share apps that are known to work / fail, symbol
presence, LSB missing symbols, etc. Would that be of interest from your
side as well?
Definitely, regardless of whether we go ahead with the above or not.
Rich