mdaniel a day ago

I think my headline parsing has forever been ruined since I thought for sure someone created a 313 million parameter cross compiling fine tune

After opening the linked page, I still don't have any idea what the number is in the headline, nor why it's important

  • nine_k 13 hours ago

    The only part of the page source with the substring "313" present is some SVG path. Maybe the automatic headline extractor went too far.

  • userbinator a day ago

    Three hundred and thirteen-point-three megabytes is how I parsed it, but I'm not sure of the significance of that either.

smartmic 17 hours ago

Why "`GNU` cross-tools"? I see no affiliation with the GNU project, no GPL licence. That's misleading.

M95D 16 hours ago

I do "crossdev --target armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf" instead, and portage will keep it updated until uninstalled.

1vuio0pswjnm7 a day ago

GCC toolchain glibc-linked binaries with musl libraries and headers, including musl dynamic loader

Out of the glibc tarpit

  • yjftsjthsd-h a day ago

    > glibc-linked binaries with musl libraries

    Why have any glibc? GCC et al. work fine compiled against musl (as proven by ex. Alpine only doing musl). Or is it for running on GNU/Linux systems (can't you statically link the build chain?)?

    • bogantech a day ago

      > Why have any glibc?

      Maybe they want dns resolution to work properly

      • yjftsjthsd-h 12 hours ago

        Are you talking about the TCP fallback that musl has also had for 2 years? https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1

        In any event, that makes no sense. Pretend for a moment that glibc has working DNS and musl doesn't have working DNS (not true, but let's pretend). You don't build your compiler chain with working DNS support and then use it to build programs without working DNS.

      • jprjr_ 15 hours ago

        Does a compiler need to resolve DNS?

  • nineteen999 a day ago

    > including musl dynamic loader

    Does this mean useful interfaces like PAM and nsswitch work on musl now?

    • stonogo 10 hours ago

      PAM has worked on musl for many years. musl-nscd has provided nsswitch functionality for about a decade now.

jedisct1 20 hours ago

These days, it just makes sense to use the Zig toolchain instead.

  • lioeters 17 hours ago

    I keep hearing about Zig and the ease of cross-compiling. I have a small C library that I'd like to build for supported platforms, and I'm considering Zig's build system for that purpose.