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Message-ID: <20200215172923.GR1663@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 12:29:23 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Brian Peregrine <peregrinebrian@...il.com>
Cc: musl <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Musl gentoo development: browsers
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Brian Peregrine wrote:
> I probably need to clarify the approach further.
> The idea is to have something (more precisely a script) which is
> intented specifically for gentoo (not all linux variants; not that the
> pull is to the gentoo/musl repo btw). Once that's ready, a binary can
> be made. Speaking for our own distro, it can be used on the optional
> usb stick (https://github.com/Sharrisii/TAZ_optional_usb_stick/tree/master/binaries
> ). I assume these binaries can then also be shared and used with
> non-gentoo based linux versions (if generic compiler flags are used,
> which is also the idea).
>
> Interested people can work on improving the files in the pull
> (https://github.com/gentoo/musl/pull/296 ) and then having these
> improvements added to the pull.
>
> Adelie's firefox-esr version is 68.5.0, jakeogh's version (in pull) is
> v.41 so Adelie's version is indeed newer. Current is v73, so still
> needs to be improved it further. So yes, you could already switch this
> in the pull.
> The binary I used of Adelie (v52.9.0-r4, back in June 2019) didn't
> work, and wasn't optimized for i686 cpu's (and also, Adelie linux is
> based on abuild system rather then gentoo's portage system), so I am
> somewhat cautious. That said, if the script is worked out further,
> there may be no issues.
AIUI Adélie follows -esr for which 68 is latest; is that incorrect?
Alpine has 73 in the testing repo.
Rich
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