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systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option.

Since September has been a pull request for experimental support for building systemd with musl libc. This requires a new version of musl with a recent patch, which has been backported to some distributions like Alpine Linux and postmarketOS, in order to use musl as an alternative to glibc.

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Another good reason Poettering left the project. This was a hill he wanted to die on... glibc only.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Wait he left? When?

[–] hosaka@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I'll finally be able to switch from docker compose to podman with quadlets on my server running alpine