Doesn't the musl-gcc wrapper provide the necessary magic to link to the platform specific 'C' Library on Alpine Linux ?

I think you're right, the musl-gcc wrapper provide some magic to link glic functions, but all the functions must be POSIX compliant. I read that glusterfs use not POSIX functions : https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/2834 .

Portablexdr doesn't seem to work with glusterfs (usually rpcgen is provided by glibc but musl doesn't have it):

Making all in rpc/xdr/gen
glusterfs3-xdr.x:39: syntax error

Both 3.10.7 and master produce the same error.

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rpcgen is in its own separate package. At least in alpine 3.9.2. (Similar to Fedora28+ and RHEL8 where rpcgen has been removed from glibc. I expect other distributions will do the same eventually.)

I didn't look in any older versions.

apk update && apk add rpcgen

But there are other issues with this rpcgen that alpine ships. It's not the same as the unbundled rpcgen in Fedora and doesn't like the "hyper" data type in, e.g., glusterfs4-xdr.x

apk info rpcgen says it's built from the source from/git.linux-nfs.org which I presume is really git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/steved/nfs-utils.git, and rpcgen in that repo is deprecated according to steved.

Alpine should probably use the rpcgen that's in Fedora from https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto.git, which supports the "hyper" data type (i.e. quad_t).

Without support for hyper, nobody is going to get very far building glusterfs.

Someone with a vested interest in Alpine should get them to update to a modern/current rpcgen. In the mean time anyone wanting to build gluster will absolutely have to build their own rpcgen from source.

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I see that @kohlschuetter is working on this issue and sent PR for the same. Re-opening the issue.

The code in the above PR works just fine to build on/run with Alpine Linux 3.21, and I hope it can get merged soon.

I also have a working ABUILD/apk binaries for x86_64, which I'm trying to push to the Alpine Linux community repo at some point in the near future (this will require some sort of "release tarball", which I'm currently hosting on my own forked repo).

See my Alpine APKBUILD sources on how to build apks for Alpine Linux: https://github.com/kohlschuetter/alpine-repo/tree/apkbuild/abuild-sources/glusterfs

Also see the corresponding blog post for installation instructions, https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2025/03/06/alpine-linux-glusterfs/

@kohlschuetter on alpine 3.21 I get this error when trying to install via your repo:

fetch https://kohlschuetter.github.io/alpine-repo/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
  so:libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 (no such package):
    required by: glusterfs-11.1_git20250306-r1[so:libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4]
                 glusterfs-libs-11.1_git20250306-r1[so:libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4]
                 glusterfs-fuse-11.1_git20250306-r1[so:libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4]
                 glusterfs-xlators-11.1_git20250306-r1[so:libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4]

~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Alpine Linux"
ID=alpine
VERSION_ID=3.21.3
PRETTY_NAME="Alpine Linux v3.21"
HOME_URL="https://alpinelinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues"

Have you encountered this?

Did you try installing https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86_64/tcmalloc ?

@geek-at Please try the updated apks form my repository (just released). If you have further problems with the binary packages, please file an issue in my alpine-repo project.