Bug 716422

Summary:	[TRACKER] Lack of backtrace support in musl
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo musl team <musl>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	herrtimson
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	712664, 712748, 713172, 713288, 713426, 714224, 715576, 715716, 715844, 716014, 716418, 571036, 712756, 713176, 713414, 713684, 715864, 715934, 715986, 716172, 716346, 716790, 762484, 885471
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Description Michael 'veremitz' Everitt 2020-04-06 08:41:42 UTC

A number of packages in the Gentoo repository will not compile under musl-libc because of the lack of backtrace support. Errors such as "fatal error: execinfo.h: No such file or directory" are a good indicator of this.

One potential ultimate goal/answer to this problem is to port affected code to libunwind (http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/index.html).

In the meantime, however, we will likely simply patch affected code with an #ifdef __GLIBC__ until upstream has made appropriate changes.