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Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux


I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targetin…

In fact, a mention of multiple service manager options – including systemd – is present on the original Adélie Web site from 2015. Since I did not want to spend time digging around how it manually parses ELF files to find their RPATH entries for a feature we are unlikely to use, I stubbed that functionality out entirely. We should be able to rely on upstream units where present, and lean on Gentoo and Fedora’s systemd experts to have good base files to reference when needed.

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