[Tcsh] tcsh and Alpine Linux: progress, anyone?

[Christos Zoulas]

Alpine uses must c which is "opinionated" about things like
defining a CPP symbol to differentiate itself because it claims one
should not be needed because it provides a standards compliant
implementation and such checks should be unnecessary:
https://wiki.musl-libc.org/faq.html
At the same time it uses a malloc implementation that causes
problems for programs which try to use a custom allocator (replace musl's
allocator):
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/testing-alternative-c-memory-allocators-pt-2-musl-mystery-gomes/
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12913

I guess one can do something weird like:
defined(__linux__) && !defined(__GLIBC__)
to work around this...

christos


> On Nov 26, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Vlad, for the extra information about the Alpine Linux
> community repository and their aports tree.
> 
> Because of the large number of VMs that I maintain in our test lab,
> and because we need to do builds of major systems, like TeX Live, in
> fairly stock environments, I tend not to enable additional
> repositories, or do builds from source code in distribution-supplied
> ports tree.
> 
> Still, it is good to have gotten recorded on this list that there are
> multiple ways to get tcsh onto Alpine Linux, and I'm very pleased to
> have had your good advice over the last couple of days.  Thanks again!
> 
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