On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 06:23:36AM -0500, Adam Thiede wrote: > Hello - I'm interested in packaging xfsdump for alpine linux. However, > alpine uses musl libc and I had to change a lot of things to get xfsdump to > build. Mostly it was changing types that are specific to glibc (i.e. stat64 > -> stat). I'm not much of a c programmer myself so I am likely > misunderstanding some things, but changing these types allows xfsdump to > compile and function on musl libc. xfsdump still compiles on Debian with > this patch too. > > Would the maintainers of xfsdump be interested in this patch? It's >4000 > lines so I'm not sure of the right way to send it. It's available in the > following merge request, and linked directly. > > https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/88452 > https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/raw/f042233eff197591777663751848ff504210002e/testing/xfsdump/musl.patch > Using the proper LFS APIs instead of the *64 is a good thing, and xfsprogs has done this long ago. So in general patches are welcome, but please split them into one issue per patch, maybe starting with removing the *64 APIs.
