musl-cross 0.9.2 (new formula)

[FiloSottile]

• Have you followed the guidelines in our Contributing document?
• Have you checked to ensure there aren't other open Pull Requests for the same formula update/change?
• Have you built your formula locally prior to submission with brew install <formula> (where <formula> is the name of the formula you're submitting)?
• Does your submission pass brew audit --strict --online <formula> (after doing brew install <formula>)?

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There's a README here, might be worth copying some of those instructions to Caveats https://gist.github.com/FiloSottile/01d2bbfaf63ae1b6e373e6bc874fefc6#file-z_readme-md

The musl-cross-make repo itself doesn't pass the popularity treshold, but it's onbly a wrapper to make cross-compilers with the hugely popular musl libc.

Also, AFAICT this is the only Formula that would install a cross-compilation toolkit out of the box.

[FiloSottile]

I noticed the failures on pre-El Capitan, but I don't have a machine to debug, help welcome.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Please remove this block, it'll be generated if this is pulled.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I'm afraid this repo isn't notable to be included in Homebrew: http://bot.brew.sh/job/Homebrew%20Core%20Pull%20Requests/4810/version=el_capitan/testReport/junit/brew-test-bot/el_capitan/audit_musl_cross___strict___online/

Sorry! Please consider creating your own tap instead. Thanks!

[FiloSottile]

I understand the specific GH repo does not match the requirements, but the repo is just the Makefile, to build a gcc with musl libc. That is the only way to use musl on OS X. And musl is definitely popular.

I'd like to ask for a more adhoc relevance decision.

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[MikeMcQuaid]

I'd like to ask for a more adhoc relevance decision.

You can create your own tap and if that's popular then it'll be a stronger argument for inclusion.

[FiloSottile]

Created https://github.com/FiloSottile/homebrew-musl-cross

[raphaelcohn]

@FiloSottile Thanks for taking the time to produce this; being able to cross compile for musl from Mac OS X is extremely useful. I can now cross-compile Rust crates! Woo-hoo!

[jjpe]

I'm somewhat confused: when I brew search for musl, I get this output:

$ brew search musl-cross

No formula found for "musl-cross".
Closed pull requests:
musl-cross 0.9.2 (new formula) (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/2974)

So basically I'm forwarded here. Could anyone please explain to me what's going on here?

[habibalamin]

@jjpe Homebrew is basically saying, “look, we don't officially support this formula, but someone did create one that never got merged in; you can install it from there if you really need it”.