Alternate Packages

[owl4ce]

Hi, I'm sharing the references I use.

Here are the results I got:

Successful with notes

• Ninja -> Samurai
• Zlib -> Zlib-ng
• Gzip -> Pigz
• Pkg-config -> Pkgconf
• GNU Gettext -> Gettext-tiny
• GNU Ncurses -> NetBSD Curses

• Gettext-tiny: notes by @dslm4515

• NetBSD Curses: Util-linux fails to build, need to patch more.c

  sed -i 's|, 0, 0|, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0|' text-utils/more.c

Failed with reasons

• GNU M4 -> OpenBSD M4 or Quasar M4

Caused by GNU autoconf (autom4te)

• GNU Readline -> NetBSD libedit

Caused by Bash

• GNU Bison -> OpenBSD Yacc or Byacc

Caused by Util-linux (autogen.sh)

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[dslm4515]

Nice!

I suppose for when building perl, you used the bundled zlib source included in the perl source, instead of building perl against system installed zlib-ng?

[owl4ce]

yeah, temporary.

[dslm4515]

Thought you might have gotten lucky like finding that patch for libelf!

[owl4ce]

I have notes, libuv for Cmake and libffi for Python are not required in llvmtools because it has those built-in libraries.

[dslm4515]

YES.
I forgot about that, when I realized i didnt need to add libarchive, curl, and the other deps for CMake. I'll remove libuv for llvmtools.

But libcxxabi requires python during configuring... unless I missed a CMake option to not use python when building libcxxabi?

[owl4ce]

As far as I know, LLVM packages always required python. Idk, I've never tried without python, I'm just referencing the build packages of existing distros.

[owl4ce]

https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#software

[owl4ce]

Found good references.
https://wiki.musl-libc.org/alternatives.html

[owl4ce]

cDetect seems outdated.

[dslm4515]

May I ask, whats packages that required musl-rpmatch?

Lol, that is a good question! When I found the musl-fts repo (i forgot why i needed FTS for musl) I also found the musl-rpmatch repo... thought I'd add it to MLFS/CMLFS just like musl-FTS.

I have built MLFS a few times and never needed musl-rpmatch... perhaps it should be marked as optional until a package (in BLFS/BMLFS) needs it?

[owl4ce]

May I ask, whats packages that required musl-rpmatch?

Lol, that is a good question! When I found the musl-fts repo (i forgot why i needed FTS for musl) I also found the musl-rpmatch repo... thought I'd add it to MLFS/CMLFS just like musl-FTS.

I have built MLFS a few times and never needed musl-rpmatch... perhaps it should be marked as optional until a package (in BLFS/BMLFS) needs it?

musl-fts, musl-obstack, and argp-standalone needed by libelf! except for musl-rpmatch 😄

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/elfutils/template#L22

[dslm4515]

musl-fts, musl-obstack, and argp-standalone needed by libelf!

YES! During early development of MLFS, libelf wont compile... realized i needed those 3 packages. It took me almost a year to figure out how to make a tool chain change libc's... GCC documentation wasnt so helpful, always assuming Glibc. Almost killed the project at the time.

[owl4ce]

musl-fts, musl-obstack, and argp-standalone needed by libelf!

YES! During early development of MLFS, libelf wont compile... realized i needed those 3 packages. It took me almost a year to figure out how to make a tool chain change libc's... GCC documentation wasnt so helpful, always assuming Glibc

Respectful.