Any plans to support Alpine Linux?

[twoism-dev]

See also #35

[deepj]

Yes, it'd be very useful for more people here. Thank you for your time on spending on this support!

[wagenet]

We'll look into what it would take to support it. How soon we can do it depends on the required effort.

[loicboutet]

I would need the Alpine support as well. Any update?

[Micka33]

Hi guys !

At Effilab, our ECS cluster runs fully on Alpine-linux.
Any news on Alpine-linux support ?

[franzejr]

I would be thrilled with this support..Looking forward to see this too.

[LouisKottmann]

With Alpine being the recommended docker base image, as more apps get containerized, I believe this is mandatory for your business...

[deepj]

@LouisKottmann I agree!

[adilbenseddik]

mmh..
CC=musl-gcc ./configure
prefix=/usr/local/musl
http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Main_Page

[wagenet]

@adilbenseddik it's a bit more complex that that. However, we are working on it and hope to have something available soon.

[adilbenseddik]

@wagenet was kidding.. I bet you have more issues to address.. yet, we're really eager to see your app up and running!! 👍 (I'm I wrong if I say you struggle with upgrading your c++ code to musl libc ??)

[wagenet]

@adilbenseddik fortunately, we're using Rust and it actually has pretty good support for musl. I believe I've got everything working, but need a little bit more internal testing before we release.

[adilbenseddik]

hey!! @wagenet that sounds really great!! do you think we could have a pre-release aka. staging of your app? here at Effilab we are pretty serious about implementing your solution in our stack, so we may help you with ad hoc (client) feedback, and further (specific) tests results.. ??

[dlupu]

looking forward for the release. this is something we're clearlt missing also on our project.

[wagenet]

I just pushed out an initial stab at musl support to the master branch in this repo. If any of you would be up for testing it, that would be awesome. I did some basic tests on Alpine and it seems to work fine, but we don't use Alpine ourselves, so it's entirely possible that we missed some things.

[LouisKottmann]

Hello @wagenet, I'm the tester, on it.

[LouisKottmann]

So it does not work on my end, I can send you the puma log if you like (contains the core dump as well)

[tombruijn]

Hi Tom from @appsignal here,

We're running into the same issue with our extension written in Rust. We tried to compile it with musl (the libc replacement Alpine linux uses), but no luck. Our agent runs fine, but the library we install in our Ruby gem as a native extension does not link properly.

We traced it back to a Rust issue with support for musl, reported here rust-lang/rust#37007

Hope this helps!

[wagenet]

@LouisKottmann any information you can provide would be great.

[LouisKottmann]

@wagenet I've sent it by mail to you

[jlambert121]

Does rust-lang/rfcs#1721 allow this to be resolved now?

[ryansch]

I just tried to install the skylight gem on a rails app inside of an alpine linux 3.4 container and I get a ruby segfault when I try to start rails. I'm looking forward to progress in this area. Back to debian for now.

[nomasprime]

I've also just run into this.

[wagenet]

@ryansch @habitullence is your error the same as #91?

[wagenet]

This should work in current master. If you're having problems, please create a new issue.

[ababich]

I already confirmed in #91 that SEGFAULT is alpine-to-skylight compatibility issue and its fairly easy to reproduce

switching to debian based ruby image fixes the issue

[wagenet]

Others can follow the discussion in #91 but I can say for a fact that Skylight does work on at least some Alpine setups. I suspect the specific issue in #91 is related to the Docker image itself. This is not an uncommon issue when using Docker.

[wagenet]

@habitullence with any luck, this fixes your issue: 138bb9a

[nomasprime]

Thanks @wagenet 🙂