Re: [xml] Compiling libxml2 against musl

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:35:16PM +0100, Michael Heimpold wrote:
> Hi,

  Hi Michael, (a bit late :-\)

> I'm maintaining the libxml2 package on OpenWrt. Some weeks ago, there was a bug filed
> against the package, regarding a failure to compile libxml2 against musl c library.
> See https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/454
>
> There is also a reference to your bug tracker:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704908

  right, closing it

> And a link to a potential fix for this:
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/libxml2/libxml2-pthread.patch
>
> Would be nice, if you could give some feedback, e.g. whether the proposed patch
> could be considered.

  if there was a __MUSL__ macro defined we could have used that
but the http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_why_is_there_no_MUSL_macro_.3F
means that we deactivate for all non Glibc libs on Linux because of their
stance.

  In any case the current git head seems to carry that patch,

   thanks,

Daniel
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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