Packages fail to precompile on musl system

[ii8]

I came across this while trying to use Makie, here is the full log: makieerrors.txt
And here is the original issue on the Makie repo: MakieOrg/Makie.jl#3725

There are a couple of issues I think, libiconv.so is assumed to exist on musl systems and the FFMPEG package has an exploding dependencies problem so completely unrelated things like Xorg_libXext_jll end up getting pulled into the environment.

[giordano]

You're likely observing JuliaLang/julia#40556. Can't do much about it here.

[ii8]

Should I open a separate issue about the ffmpeg dependencies?

[giordano]

Why?

[ii8]

Because installing ffmpeg causes Xorg_libX11_jll and also other things to be installed which is very odd as they shouldn't be dependencies of ffmpeg, and they aren't on any linux distro AFAIK, certainly not any I've used. And this issue was closed without that being addressed. I'm not even using X so it makes no sense that Xorg things are being installed.

[giordano]

Because installing ffmpeg causes Xorg_libX11_jll and also other things to be installed which is very odd as they shouldn't be dependencies of ffmpeg,

I don't what you're talking about, libx11 and libxext are dependencies of ffmpeg, for example on arch Linux: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ffmpeg/

and they aren't on any linux distro AFAIK

Again, no clue what you're talking about, for example on alpine linux: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86/libx11

certainly not any I've used.

I thought you said you use alpine

And this issue was closed without that being addressed.

What do you want to address? I said we can't do much about musl dynamic loader being overly strict and not allowing multiple prefixes in a nice way