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musl does not perfectly emulate all aspects of glibc, so trying to use libraries that assume glibc can sometimes lead to problems.

• pg83 2mo ago
  On the one hand, this is technically true, but on the other, what serious issues do you know that will cause problems in practice? I run tests on 1,000 of the most popular Debian packages.
  • skydhash 2mo ago
    Mostly about precompiled libraries (proprietary software) and libraries and software that use GNU extensions.
  • silisili 2mo ago
    Not anymore, but for -years- it did DNS wrong because of the author being pedantic about an RFC wording.