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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Presumably so it can work with either libc implementation.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Well if glibc is supported all glibc softwares must work right?? Patching the software to support musl would not be needed if it does support glibc

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    Even if it's supported, it doesn't mean it needs to be installed in every system. If the user wants to use a Musl-based system, the software working only on glibc needs to be patched. At least that's how I understood these statements.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    But the Void Linux team specifically wants to support both glibc and musl

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    Some patches are there for software that reauires systemd or parts of it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I have checked the void website and it does NOT support glibc. Here is it:

    Wait edit: there is musl variant and glibc variant..

    Incompatible software

    musl practices very strict and minimal standard compliance. Many commonly used platform-specific extensions are not present. Because of this, it is common for software to need modification to compile and/or function properly. Void developers work to patch such software and hopefully get portability/correctness changes accepted into the upstream projects.

    Proprietary software usually supports only glibc systems, though sometimes such applications are available as flatpaks and can be run on a musl system. In particular, the proprietary NVIDIA drivers do not support musl, which should be taken into account when evaluating hardware compatibility.

    glibc chroot

    Software requiring glibc can be run in a glibc chroot.