X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from dal-a2.localdomain (unknown [74.117.189.115]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FAADC0C04 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (3.203.202.84.customer.cdi.no [84.202.203.3]) (using SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ncopa@tanael.org) by dal-a2.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DAE76BC0FF9 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:07:12 +0100 From: Natanael Copa Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Why musl libc Message-ID: <20140325140712.11ad9ff2@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <20140324135547.53336b7b@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> References: <20140324135547.53336b7b@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-alpine-linux-uclibc) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:55:47 +0100 Natanael Copa wrote: > Hi, > > As previously mentioned we are moving to musl libc[1]. > > Some might ask why so I'll write down some reasons why we do this: ... > * uClibc code is a bit messy and some issues we have is simply not > worth fixing with uClibc code base. (locales, static linking with > pthreads[2]) Another thing we can do after switching to musl is supporting all timezones. With uClibc we cannot. http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/927 -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---