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Status: Archived
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Closed: Jul 2017
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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Chromium doesn't compile on musl systems because it isn't portable and assumes the host system is running glibc

Reported by albapom...@gmail.com, May 1 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Download Chromium
2. Try to compile it on a musl system

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Chromium uses glibc internal functions and thus fails to compile on musl systems.

Alpine Linux is an example of a Linux distribution that uses musl.

They have proposed some patches locally on their git repository that make Chromium to compile. [0]

Chromium developers from here should consider upstreaming the patches if they are clean enough or propose a real solution to make Chromium portable across different libc implementations.

Thanks.

[0] http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/community/chromium

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.110 (Developer Build) (64-bit)  Channel: n/a
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 24 2017

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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