Shims we need

[onre]

There are certain shims that would make life a lot easier. Some are really easy, some are closer to the pipedream section of the department store.

• posix_spawn emulation. Not that hard - basically a fork-exec thing with a list of file descriptors to set up before forking. This would give us ninja - a lot of modern stuff is built with meson and ninja, of which meson is Python3 and already working.
• Xrender - at least in theory one could write an OpenGL shim for this. This is the primary reason we don't have QT4 Webkit.

I'll keep on updating the list.

 

[hammy]

There are certain shims that would make life a lot easier. Some are really easy, some are closer to the pipedream section of the department store.
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This sounds and smells a little like writing some "compatibility" shim library and headers we can include using CFLAGS/LDFLAGS - we talked about fixing up the crappy printf and strtod as well, it's the same principle AFAICT.

One possibility - there is the gnulib sources that provide a number of compatibility patches - maybe one avenue might be to see if building something with that could serve these purposes (and this would be the natural place for extensions, too).

Linky: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/

 

[onre]

Actually I just wrote another post about a compatibility library as a separate thing. GNUlib is certainly an option.