Ports

This is a list of all official ports of third party software to Sortix and their current status. Each port has meta data and a list of issues. Issues in the past tense have been patched around, otherwise they are remaining issues. Ports are of course always behind the official upstream versions and issues may have been fixed upstream

Our philosophy is that software should strive to work well on unknown operating systems. Sortix does not upstream patches that specifically mention/support Sortix. Sortix is perfectly happy maintaining its own patches for specific Sortix support when it must. However you are more than welcome to help upstream patches that make software more portable in general, but remember not burden upstream projects with specific Sortix workarounds.

Each port has the following meta data:

Field	Meaning
Status	An assessment of code quality and issues porting it to Sortix: Complicated: See notes. Alright: Considerable issues. Good: Minor issues. Great: Exemplary port. Sortix: Maintained by Sortix. OpenBSD: Imported from OpenBSD. Wrapper: Wrapper for another source package.
Updated	Date of last update to the port.
Version	The version of the software.
Released	When the software version was released.
Upstream Version	(If a Sortix fork) The upstream version forked from.
Upstream Released	(If a Sortix fork) When the upstream release was made.
New Version	A new version of the software, if available.

ag

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2016-09-30	the_silver_searcher-0.33.0	2016-09-25		ag.patch

• Has a -Wcast-qual warning in decompress.c. (libz's fault possibly?)
• sys/param.h inclusion.
• Disrespects CFLAGS by adding -O2.

binutils

Status	Updated	Version	Released	Upstream Version	Upstream Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2019-04-17	sortix-binutils-1.1-rc1	2019-04-17	binutils-2.24	2013-12-02	binutils-2.32	binutils.patch

This is really Sortix binutils, a local fork of GNU binutils enhanced to know about Sortix.

• State in the binutils, gcc and libstdc++ port patches that this is not the real patches; that this is based on sortix project foo rather than upstream foo.
• Rework how the tooldir problem is solved in the binutils patches, or at least consider the problem for a while.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function internally and libiberty simulates it.
• Uses utime and <utime.h> and isn't able to use utimens, though that has been patched in for Sortix support.
• binutils/gas/config/tc-tic54x.c uses the unsafe tmpnam.
• libiberty provides its own tmpnam.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

bison

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2014-12-27	bison-3.0.2	2013-12-05	bison-3.0.4	bison.patch

• Intrusively uses gnulib and has no faith in the standard library. It runs a lot of paranoid tests that might succeed and the standard library gets used if lucky. If unlucky or cross-compiling, it doesn't assume the best about the operating system, but the worst and all sorts of nasty fallback code gets compiled in. (This is somewhat patched around using nasty gnulib configure cache variables)
• Doesn't make distclean properly.
• Cross-compiles programs and tries to run them.
• Ships lib/xmalloc.c that provides xcalloc, but the gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU m4 test that defines HAVE_CALLOC_GNU is not part of the configure script, so it doesn't listen for our cache variable; thus the calloc implementation isn't trusted to do overflow checks, xcalloc does its own testing as well. (This port needs to be updated to work around this.)
• Ships lib/timevar.c (of gcc descend) that uses functions like getrusage, timens, and clock. This needs an audit and potentially be upgraded to the superior Sortix time reporting functions.

bochs

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2016-01-26	bochs-2.6	2012-09-02		bochs.patch

• Uses sdl-config program instead of using pkg-config.
• Doesn't get DESTDIR from the environment in all its makefiles.
• A call to the obsolete gethostbyname function.
• Uses utime rather than utimens.

bzip2

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2014-04-28	bzip2-1.0.6	2010-09-20		bzip2.patch

• Has no configure script but instead supplies an inadequate makefile that didn't support EXEC_PREFIX and DESTDIR.
• The Makefile doesn't respect the environment variables.
• The all target had test as a prerequisite which doesn't cross-compile.
• Included the non-standard header <sys/times.h>.
• Unnecessarily defines -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the BIGFILES variable.
• Has a call to the non-standard setbuffer in spewG.c.

cut

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
OpenBSD	2016-02-20	2014-02-02 cut.c v 1.18	2016-02-20		cut.patch

dash

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2021-02-13	dash-0.5.7	2011-07-08		dash.patch

• Had BSD-isms like including <sys/param.h> and using getpgrp().
• Didn't properly print 64-bit pid_ts.
• Had to be taught Sortix supports allocations in getcwd(3).
• The source code probably needs a good audit.
• Configured as a sortix-sh proper-shell replacement.
• alloca calls could stack overflow on particularily nasty configure scripts, fixed by using malloc instead.

diffutils

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-08-23	diffutils-3.3	2011-09-02		diffutils.patch

• Ships lib/xmalloc.c that provides xcalloc, but the gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU m4 test that defines HAVE_CALLOC_GNU is not part of the configure script, so it doesn't listen for our cache variable; thus the calloc implementation isn't trusted to do overflow checks, xcalloc does its own testing as well.

e2fsprogs

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2016-12-07	e2fsprogs-1.42.13	2015-05-18		e2fsprogs.patch

• The code needs to be cleaned up.
• uuid generation daemon seems like a thoroughly bad idea.
• Really weird fixed size integer type usage instead of stdint.h.
• Inclusions of sys/param.h.
• sbrk usage, for diagnostic uses.
• Assumptions about pid_t type size.
• putenv calls.
• Bad randomness generation (replaced with arc4random).
• POSIX advisory locks.
• Bundled gettext.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.
• Installs /etc/mke2fs.conf that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default.

ed

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
OpenBSD	2016-10-30	2016-08-16 ed.c v 1.58	2016-10-30		ed.patch

• Needs PATH_MAX, fallback define added.
• pledge() call commented out.

emacs

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Keter	2019-04-16	emacs-26.2	2020-07-26		emacs.patch

• Doesn't target unknown operating systems.
• Unexecute is surprisingly horrible, disabled with CANNOT_DUMP.
• Doesn't know how to use CC_FOR_BUILD and doesn't build a local emacs for bytecode compilation.
• Replaces the system malloc.
• Uses getpgrp instead of getpgid.
• Refuses to work on unknown operating systems for no good reason.
• Lots of gnulib.
• Compresses manual pages but shouldn't.
• Includes <sys/file.h> in a lot of files for no reason.
• Includes <memory.h> for no reason.
• Needs getpass(3) for lib-src/pop.c email handling.
• Doesn't distclean properly (some .elc files still needs to be dealth with and normalized).
• Weird issue with make-hash-table's :rehash-size parameter being non-integer and non-float.
• Needs TAB3.
• Strictly checks make and fails on colormake.
• Uses IFNAMSIZ instead of IF_NAMESIZE.
• Installs systemd emacs.service on systems not using systemd.
• Used inet_addr and inet_ntoa instead of the modern inet_ntop and inet_pton.

ffmpeg

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-01-20	ffmpeg-4.3.1	2020-07-11		ffmpeg.patch

• Homemade ./configure script that didn't implement some crucial parts of the traditional interface (exec-prefixes, --build, --host, --target).
• Didn't handle the empty prefix is the root directory, thinks it means unset.
• Configure needed support for _SORTIX_SOURCE.
• The included assembly files were disabled due to problems.
• libavformat/codec2.c included <memory.h>.

flex

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-12-19	flex-2.6.0	2015-11-17		flex.patch

• Minor cross-compilation issues.
• Tests run with compiled flex when cross-compiling.
• Documentation issues when cross-compiling.
• Trouble locating m4 properly (from PATH at runtime, not compile) when cross-compiling.
• Overall suspicious design that needs a review and probably a reimplementation.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

gawk

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2017-10-23	gawk-4.2.0	2017-10-19		gawk.patch

• Compatibility problems with Sortix getopt. (Patched)
• Doesn't include sys/select.h properly. (Patched)
• Uses getpgrp instead of the desirable getpgid. (Patched)
• Uses major and minormacros. (Patched)
• Prints integers as non-precision doubles. (Patched to print as long long until__SORTIX_HAS_FLOAT_PARSE__ is defined)
• Installs /etc/profile.d/gawk.{csh,sh} of unknown purposes and maybe in need of sysadmin/OS-default separation.

gcc

Status	Updated	Version	Released	Upstream Version	Upstream Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2019-06-19	sortix-gcc-1.1-rc2	2019-04-17	gcc-5.2	2015-07-16	binutils-gcc-8.3.0	gcc.patch

This is really Sortix gcc, a local fork of GNU gcc enhanced to know about Sortix.

• State in the binutils, gcc and libstdc++ port patches that this is not the real patches; that this is based on sortix project foo rather than upstream foo.
• Bundles with its own libz.It is used by default unless the user explicitly says no.
• The gcc/libsanitizer/tsan/tsan_symbolize_addr2line_linux.cc and gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_symbolizer_posix_libcdep.cc have scary getdtablesize calls. Actually those files are pretty scary. This looks like a place security issues could pile up.
• Uses the obsolete caddr_t type.
• Potential conflict with TIME_MAX in ports/gcc/libitm/method-ml.cc.
• Ships timevar.c that uses functions like getrusage, timens, and clock. This needs an audit and potentially be upgraded to the superior Sortix time reporting functions. (Mind also this has been copied into gnulib)
• Uses the obsolete clock() function internally and libiberty simulates it.
• Bundles its own libffi.
• Uses utime rather than utimens in libjava.
• Uses utime rather than utimens in ada code.
• Might be using the dangerous -funsafe-math-optimizations in libgo.
• _eprintf needs to be deleted from libgcc. Or, perhaps, as a better compromise: Check whether fprintf, and fflush exists before using them.
• Remove fsf-funding.7.
• Add to tixbuildinfo that pkg.configure.with-sysroot-ld-bug=true so tix-build don't have to default to this.
• genautomata is built without exceptions to work around #740.

gettext

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2021-06-19	gettext-0.19.8	2016-06-09		gettext.patch

• Source package shared with libintl.
• Searched for libxml2 in the prefix, which wasn't cross-compilation safe obviously, which was replaced with pkg-config.
• Circular dependency with libglib needs to be severed, change libglib to depend on libintl instead (not fixed yet).
• Standard gnulib issues.
• Loads of sprintf calls in gnulib and gettext fixed to snprintf that should go upstream.
• Dependency on iconv reduced to make smaller executables.
• Warned due to free on a const pointer that's actually not const.
• Bundled libcroco, needs to be made non-optional after a port is available.
• Bundled libunistring, needs to be made non-optional after a port is available.
• Bundled libxml2.
• What is libasprintf?
• Didn't detect libxml2 dependencies with pkg-config.
• Replacing printf was suppressed even if Sortix printf doesn't have POSIX/XSI positional parameters yet, as the replacement causes problems in other ports.
• I heard talk in #musl about a minimal gettext replacement, perhaps adopt that instead?
• Fails to compile if a C# compiler is installed, --disable-csharp works around the problem.

git

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2020-03-15	git-2.14.3	2017-10-23		git.patch

• Uses itimers instead of POSIX timers. (Patched)
• Problems with libintl and libiconv linking order. (Patched)
• Deletes the configure script on distclean even though it's included in releases. (Patched)
• The configure script doesn't cross-compile as two checks needs to be run: A check for whether snprintf has a bogus return value, and whether you can fread directories. It should instead assume the best for unknown platforms when cross-compiling, config.mak.uname can be used to blacklist broken systems. (Patched)
• HAVE_DEV_TTY is only defined config.mak.uname based on the build system and is not set by configure. (Patched)
• Perl stuff is installed in /usr/local and not exactly sure where that path comes from. (Patched).
• Progress bars requires restartable system calls which Sortix doesn't have right now. (Patched) (__SORTIX_HAS_RESTARTABLE_SYSCALLS__)
• Replacement hstrerror is compiled (and doesn't compile) even if it is not used. (Patched).
• TIME_MAX constant conflicts with Sortix constant. (Patched).
• Single use of rand replaced with arc4random to avoid compile warning. (Patched).
• Manual pages were not build & installed by default
• Pthread cancellation is used. (Patched).
• Uses variables like SHELL_PATH, PERL_PATH, PYTHON_PATH at both build-time and run-time. However, they need to be distinct in the case of cross-compiling. Perhaps switch this to a SHELL_PATH_FOR_BUILD or SHELL_PATH_FOR_HOST. (Not patched)
• Why does configure.ac GIT_CHECK_FUNC run AC_SEARCH_LIBS when it finds the function, I would expect it to do that when it fails to find it. Is it because of race conditions? Is it a nop, because it searches no libraries? (Not patched)
• Used curl-config instead of pkg-config to detect if curl supported SSL. (Patched)

grep

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-08-29	grep-2.20	2014-06-03	grep-2.21	grep.patch

• Usual gnulib issues.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

grub

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2016-10-04	git upstream master @ 2016-02-20	2016-02-20		grub.patch

• -s in CFLAGS produces a GRUB that can't boot.
• Usual gnulib issues.
• Minor sprintf usage.
• fopen "w+c" glibcism.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.
• Uses freetype-config script in fallback.
• Installs /etc/bash_completion.d/grub autocompletions.
• Installs /etc/grub.d that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation somehow.

gzip

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2014-12-27	gzip-1.5	2012-06-17	gzip-1.6	gzip.patch

• Lots of gnulib reliance.
• gnulib logic making it think fcntl(F_DUPFD) is broken.
• Trouble with cross-compile unsafe locale availability detection, likely fixed in newer versions.
• Should probably be replaced by a custom Sortix gzip tool.

hello

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	hello-2.8	2012-04-19	hello-2.10	hello.patch

• Trouble with cross-compile unsafe locale availability detection, likely fixed in newer versions.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

libavcodec

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Wrapper	2021-01-20	ffmpeg-4.3.1	2020-07-11		libavcodec.patch

• Source package shared with ffmpeg.

libcairo

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-12-27	cairo-1.12.14	2013-02-10	cairo-1.14.2	libcairo.patch

• Has a single stray raw pkg-config call in configure.ac that should have been with PKG_CONFIG instead.
• Likes to use link-time optimization automatically if it naively appears to work, even though it doesn't really and makes my Sortix toolchain explode (though, that's my fault).
• Really doesn't believe X is unavailable unless a million configure options are passed.
• Might actually reautostuff itself.
• Uses freetype-config script in fallback.

libcurl

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-02-12	curl-7.69.0	2020-03-04		libcurl.patch

• configure required gethostbyname to exist even if it's not used.
• configure "amended" the distclean targets, but it corrupted the Makefile with hundreds of thousands of duplicate rm calls.
• configure used the unrelated h_errno to check whether getaddrinfo is thread safe.
• struct hostent needed to be declared even though the gethostbyname family is not used.
• Used sprintf instead of snprintf.
• The tarball wasn't distclean.
• The distclean target didn't fully distclean.
• configure needs to be told --with-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/cert.pem --with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs as it otherwise can't locate the libssl certificate storage when cross-compiling.
• Installed curl-config program.

libcurses

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2021-04-17	netbsd-curses-0.1.0	2016-09-19		libcurses.patch

• Makefile doesn't respect environment PREFIX etc.
• Makefile doesn't use EXEC_PREFIX and INCLUDEDIR is called INCDIR.
• Makefile modified a bit so it only does static linking.
• Stores installed terminfo differently than ncurses, may be an issue.
• Port can be cleaned up when libc has nl_langinfo, getwchar, putwc, ONLCR, hsearch (replaced with musl code).
• Uses non-standard types like u_uint32_tand u_int and doesn't provide replacements.
• Uses non-standard bcopy and index instead of memcpy and strchr.
• Assumes PATH_MAX.
• Assumes <sys/param.h> exists and provides MAX().
• Needs <sys/ttydefault.h> and replaced with musl code.
• Call to mmap using non-existent no-op MAP_FILE and MAP_SHARED , without needing MAP_SHARED semantics.

libdbus

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2018-05-08	dbus-1.6.8	2012-09-28	dbus-1.9.20	libdbus.patch

• Not entirely working on Sortix yet.
• Uses alloca without including the header.
• Includes the wrong poll header.
• Has broken case on systems without writev.
• Includes the wrong fcntl header.
• Calls putenv instead of setenv.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in dbus-mempool.c.
• Abstracts the header and library installation paths stupidly.
• Installs /etc/dbus-1 that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default.

libevent

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2017-05-14	libevent-2.0.22-stable	2015-01-05	libevent-2.1.8-stable.tar.gz	libevent.patch

• Fixed use of u_char and u_short.
• bufferevent_read_pressure_cb was added for OpenBSD httpd compatibility.
• Fixed check for GNU pth with non-cross-safe pthread-config.
• Fixed pthread search checking for pthread_cleanup_push and pthread_cleanup_pop that are not actually used.
• arc4random_addrandom invocation removed as Sortix doesn't have that by design.
• Fixed assumption EAGAIN is equal to EWOULDBLOCK.
• Disabled malloc replacement.
• Replaced uses of random with arc4random.
• Fixed sample and test subdirs being built by default.

libexpat

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-02-07	expat-2.1.0	2012-03-24		libexpat.patch

• Doesn't get DESTDIR from the environment.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in tests/benchmark/benchmark.c.
• Files like xmlwf/readfilemap.c have implicit function declarations because the code is trash and only includes unistd.h on beos.

libffi

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-08-23	libffi-3.2.1	2014-11-12		libffi.patch

• Installs headers in /lib/libffi-version by default.
• Contains a copy of dlmalloc that's perhaps only used for interix and cygwin. Double check this is never used on Sortix.
• Does libffi come with its own malloc? Nuke that.
• Might be using the dangerous -ffast-math option.
• Doesn't distclean properly (makefile.sed~) due to debug code.

libfontconfig

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2017-10-24	fontconfig-2.12.6	2017-09-21		libfontconfig.patch

• Release isn't distclean. (Patched).
• Documentation requires SGMLSpm and texline, doesn't seem to work? (Disabled documentation)
• fontconfig.pc doesn't properly use pkg-config dependencies, cflags containing sysroots paths are included. (Patched)
• Uses bad fcntl locks, replaced with flock(3) locks for when Sortix supports those. (Patched)
• Big bad randomness labyrinth instead of arc4random_uniform. (Patched)
• Uses sprintf instead of snprintf. (Patched)
• test/test-migration.c needs config.h macros but doesn't include config.h. (Patched)
• Installs /etc/fonts that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default (possibly, already looks like an extensible system).

libfreetype

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2017-10-24	freetype-2.8.1	2017-09-16		libfreetype.patch

• Complications: Abstraction astronautics space race.
• Release isn't distclean (docs/reference). (Patched)
• Uses libpng-config as a fallback. (Patched)
• freetype2.pc has a HTTP URL instead of HTTPS. (Patched)
• Ships a cross-unsafe freetype-config program. (Patched)
• Uses sprintf instead of snprintf. (Patched)
• Contains bundled copy of zlib that is used when the system has no libz. (Patched)
• valid_entries triggers maybe initialized warning. (Patched to initialize with 0)
• Can't decide where its headers should be installed, so provides a <ft2build.h> header that #define's the real locations.
• Including the real headers doesn't work because they check if the user actually used the <ft2build.h> header, then it includes the header again for good measure.
• Then wraps its headers in another freetype2/ directory and forces the user to locate it with pkg-config.
• Doesn't trust the standard library and wraps everything with FT_ prefixes so it becomes effectively written in the FT_C programming language.
• Probably lots of other situations when examined closer.

libglib

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2015-12-18	glib-2.45.6	2015-08-19		libglib.patch

• Complications: Glue library with considerable compatibility issues on Sortix.
• Doesn't cross-compile properly due to required run-time tests in configure.
• Assumes the worst when cross-compiling.
• Needs to know the stack growth direction for no good reason any more except to put it in a public header.
• Uses arpa/nameser.h and resolv.h.
• Major incompatibilities with pid_t, uid_t, gid_t, dev_t larger than int.
• Assumes socklen_t is unsigned int.
• Upstream tarball isn't distclean (distclean also deletes some stuff it shouldn't).
• Doesn't distclean properly.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

libgmp

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2015-08-23	gmp-6.0.0a	2014-03-25		libgmp.patch

• Might do automatic cross-builds, as linux-from-scratch warns again, if ABI is unset and you are unlucky.
• configure compiler bug tests that won't work with -Werror=impliciy-function-declarations.
• Insecure sprintf patterns in printf/sprintffuns.c that needs an investigation.
• gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz contains a directory gmp-6.0.0 and not gmp-6.0.0a.

libiconv

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-07-19	libiconv-1.16	2019-04-26		libiconv.patch

• Linked with an installed .la file rather than the one from the source tree, which wasn't cross-compilation safe because it doesn't use the sysroot, and doesn't support the DESTDIR.

libidn

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2016-10-01	libidn-1.33	2016-07-20		libidn.patch

• Usual gnulib issues.
• doc/Makefile has a target for itself that causes automake to be run.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

libintl

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Wrapper	2016-12-27	gettext-0.19.8	2016-12-26		libintl.patch

• Source package shared with gettext.

libjpeg

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	jpeg-9	2013-01-13	jpeg-9a, or perhaps better yet, libjpeg-turbo?	libjpeg.patch

• The programs installed as part of this library have the target triplet prefixed for some reason, it might have misdone some autoconf stuff.
• (This library may have a funky license, needs review)
• (I have a feeling I'll find other stuff when reviewing this library's code)

liblua

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Wrapper	2017-04-11	2017-04-11	2017-04-11		liblua.patch

• This package simply uses the regular lua source package and builds it as a library.

libmpc

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-08-24	mpc-1.0.3	2015-02-16		libmpc.patch

• config.sub doesn't have the user write bit set.
• A few sprintf calls.

libmpfr

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-08-23	mpfr-3.1.3	2015-06-19		libmpfr.patch

• Assumes the worst when in a few cases when cross-compiling and unable to test. For instance that NAN != NAN. I get a vibe that it does work work safely around this, but it's worth investigating.
• Port is set to do out-of-directory builds but that isn't needed. Remove this during the next package update.

libogg

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	libogg-1.3.1	2013-05-20	libogg-1.3.2	libogg.patch

• Some weird issues with <ogg/config_types.h> being generated and including the <stdint.h> headers (and others) with the name substituted in at configure time.
• Ships its own ogg_int16_t types.
• Might be using the dangerous -ffast-math option

libpcre

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2016-09-29	pcre-8.39	2016-06-14		libpcre.patch

• libpcre-config.
• libpcreposix conflicts with libc regex.
• sprintf calls.
• libz and bzip2 dependency should be optional, right?

libpixman

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	pixman-0.28.2	2012-12-10	pixman-0.32.6	libpixman.patch

• Uses the obsolete clock() function in tests/utils.c.

libpng

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-06-28	libpng-1.5.13	2012-09-27	libpng- 1.6.18	libpng.patch

• Needs to depend on libz in the pkg-config file.
• What does --with-binconfigs=no do?
• (Needs the Sortix post-install step modernized)
• Probably contains other code (from the authors of zlib) that I should quality check.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in 'pngtest.c`.

libreadline

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2016-12-27	readline-7.0.1	2016-09-08		libreadline.patch

• Complications: Making new tarballs on critical fixes is too hard.
• Upstream project expects you to apply patches to the latest release.
• Added /etc/input to get control + left/right to work.
• Didn't respect DESTDIR from the environment.
• Needed --disable-shared as it doesn't properly detect shared linking isn't supported.
• Installs /etc/inputrc that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default.

libSDL

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2016-03-06	SDL-1.2.15	2012-01-19	SDL2?	libSDL.patch

• Complications: Simple DirectMedia Layer for various values of simple.
• (Eep, lots of noise in the patch from me having to reautoconf the tree after adding Sortix backends.)
• (Eep, that Sortix backend code is a bit nasty.)
• Lots of SDL-specific types and abstracting the operating system provided abstractions.
• Installs a libSDL library instead of a libsdl.
• Needs to be told X is not available and pulseaudio is not available.
• (Yeah, I need to actually look at this port closely, this patch scares me away right now though.)
• Update libSDL port and clean up the manner in which sdl-config is deleted.
• Look more closely at SDL_ThreadID and SDL_SYS_KillThread. I think they are things that needs to die.
• Invokes esd-config (issue tracker bug #39).

libssl

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Great	2021-10-01	libressl-3.4.0	2021-09-15		libssl.patch

This is libressl from the OpenBSD team.

• Used unportable u_char and u_int types here and there.
• nc assumed netinet/telnet.h is around but Sortix doesn't have it yet.
• nc used mktemp to make unique Unix socket name instead of mkstemp.
• nc assumed file descriptor passing on Unix sockets is suppported, added workaround if it's not available.
• nc used non-standard caddr_t type instead of char*.
• nc assumed IP_TOS, IP_TTL, and other options are available that Sortix doesn't have yet.
• Uses PATH_MAX but handles if the paths are too long.
• readlink call didn't check for truncated symbolic links.
• gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr calls were disabled as Sortix only has the getaddrinfo family.
• configure didn't forward declare getpagesize and misdetects when compiled with -Werror=implicit-function-declaration.
• Sortix <limits.h> is buggy and doesn't define SSIZE_MAX.
• Included <arpa/nameser.h> but doesn't seem to need it.
• <machine/endian.h> didn't include <endian.h> if it's available on unknown systems.
• Tried to include <resolv.h> but didn't seem to need it.
• Unnecessarily included other headers in compatibility headers.
• Sortix getpagesize returns size_t rather than int and compat/unistd.h seems to add an incompatible replacement even if it is there.
• Used __dead instead of <stdnoreturn.h>.
• Unnecessary included <sys/param.h>.
• Assumed uid_t is int.
• Installs /etc/ssl that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default.

libstdc++

Status	Updated	Version	Released	Upstream Version	Upstream Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2021-04-17	sortix-libstdc++-1.1-rc1	2019-04-17	gcc-5.2	2015-07-16		libstdc++.patch

This is really Sortix libstdc++, a local fork of GNU libstdc++ enhanced to know about Sortix.

• State in the binutils, gcc and libstdc++ port patches that this is not the real patches; that this is based on sortix project foo rather than upstream foo.
• There are probably many exciting things to discover if you study the code.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in testsuite/util/performance/time/elapsed_timer.cc.
• Doesn't detect that thread local storage is available on Sortix.
• GLIBCXX_ENABLE_LIBSTDCXX_TIME isn't friendly for unknown operating systems, and this also isn't friendly for musl.
• libstdc+++ needs to learn to use arc4random.
• The static library file extension was empty for non-cross builds due to a bug in acinclude.m4, needs to be fixed in the next Sortix toolchain update.

libtheora

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2014-04-28	libtheora-1.1.1	2009-10-01		libtheora.patch

• The example code uses the non-standard <sys/timeb.h> time code instead of <time.h>.
• Runs cross-compiled programs when generating documentation.

libvorbis

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	libvorbis-1.3.3	2012-02-03	libvorbis-1.3.5	libvorbis.patch

• Might be using the dangerous -ffast-math option.
• Might be using the -mno-ieee-fp option, is that bad?

libxkbcommon

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-06-23	libxkbcommon-0.3.1	2013-06-03	libxkbcommon-0.5.0	libxkbcommon.patch

• The code makes assumptions about the availability of PATH_MAX.
• Doesn't distclean properly.

libxml2

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2016-01-26	libxml2-2.9.1	2013-04-19	libxml2-2.9.2	libxml2.patch

• Removed xml2-config.
• Doesn't make distclean properly.
• Make distclean deletes the license.
• gethostbyname calls in nanoftp and nanohttp.
• runtest and testrecurse have problems with sortix not having glob yet.
• Tries to use python2.7-config scripts instead of pkg-config.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in a few files.
• What's this with xmlChar?
• The port spews a bunch of compiler warnings.
• Why nanohttp and nanoftp exist and why are they even built? Is this a ftp and http client sublibrary? Is this thing full of security issues because it's ill-known code?
• It uses ansidecls.h if available in its public headers.
• Is able to link with liblzma but doesn't put that in the pkgconfig file.

libz

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2016-02-21	libz-1.2.8.2015.12.26	2015-12-26		libz.patch

This is really Sortix libz, a cleaned up fork of zlib.

lua

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2017-04-11	lua-5.3.4	2017-01-12		lua.patch

• Complications: Simple but the wrong kind of portable.
• Makefile without standard semantics (patched).
• Assumes POSIX means XSI (patched).
• A sprintf call (patched).
• Assumes modules are in /usr/local (patched).

m4

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2014-04-28	m4-1.4.16	2011-03-01	m4-1.4.17	m4.patch

• Classic gnulib issues.
• (Some of this gnulib has to be cleaned up due to libc improvements)
• Usual cross-compile locale issues.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

make

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2021-04-02	make-4.0	2013-10-09	make-4.1	make.patch

• Complications: Wants to use gnulib but it wasn't portable enough.
• Problematic code when making a custom dirent as sizeof(struct dirent) doesn't work due to a variable length array.
• Nasty sprintf calls to alloca'd buffers.
• Uses putenv.
• Includes <sys/param.h>.
• Makes assumptions about the existence of PATH_MAX.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.
• Invoked realpath(3) with undefined non-null output buffer.

mdocml

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2017-12-02	mdocml-1.13.3	2015-03-13	mdocml-1.14.1 (see wip-packages/man)	mdocml.patch

• configure script is custom and doesn't implement the conventional interface. Partially patched.
• A man.conf is required for it to work. Added a fallback default /etc/default/man.conf so the sysadmin can own /etc/man.conf.
• Assumes existence of sys/param.h. Patched.
• Assumes existence of PATH_MAX and realpath supporting destination buffer of choice. Patched.
• Sortix doesn't have glob libc support yet. Worked around.
• Patched to use pager(1) instead of pager(1).
• Patched to support showing non-installed files: man ./foo.1.

nano

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2016-11-03	nano-2.7.1	2016-10-29		nano.patch

• Release isn't distclean.
• Lots of sprintf.
• nano(1) manual page have double blank lines between sections rather than single.
• Cross-issues in _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED and checks for COLS and LINES can be redefined.
• Invokes ncursesw-config if pkg-config fails.
• Uses P_tmpdir.
• Uses glob.h which is unimplemented in Sortix.
• Port doesn't have a nanorc set up that includes syntax highlighting and such.
• Syntax highlighting tends to use features not implemented in Sortix regex(3).
• -Wformat issue in call to mvwprintw in winio.c.
• distclean doesn't remove revision.h.
• Assumes regcomp handles " and ' (just use " and ' instead, no need to escape).
• Assumes regcomp either handles < and > word delimiters or the BSD variants.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

nasm

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	nasm-2.11.02	2014-02-20	nasm-2.11.08	nasm.patch

• Doesn't delete doc/Makefile when running make distclean.
• Uses INSTALLROOT instead of DESTDIR.

nyancat

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2020-02-23	nyancat-1.5.2	2018-08-18		nyancat.patch

• The Makefile was rewritten because it doesn't support PREFIX (and other variables) and distclean.
• There's some compile warnings about setjmp variable clobbering.
• The Sortix terminal needed to be explicitly supported.
• Missing libc printf floating point support is worked around.

patch

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-08-24	patch-2.7.5	2015-03-07		patch.patch

• Bad gnulib issues. This needs to be investigated, I suspect it uses bad gnulib modules.
• Makes assumptions about the existence of PATH_MAX in symbolic link handling code.

perl

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Thaumiel	2021-07-23	perl-5.32.0 + perl-cross-1.3.4	2020-06-20	perl-5.34.0	perl.patch

• Replaced the problematic build system that doesn't cross-compile with perl-cross that does cross-compile but has its own problems.
• perl-cross was extracted onto regular perl as a secondary tarball.
• perl-cross applies its own patches on the first build, these are included in the Sortix patch.
• The markers for the perl-cross patches are replaced with one empty line instead of empty files so the diff includes them.
• Fixed ./configure --foo= bar being parsed as ./configure --foo bar.
• Added ignored --exec-prefix option to configure.
• configure function tests don't have prototypes and needed -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration.
• configure accidentally checked for pipe instead of pipe2.
• configure accidentally didn't check for nanosleep.
• configure needed to be told Sortix is an operating system.
• configure checked for FD_SET in <sys/types.h> instead of <sys/select.h>.
• Added fallback arc4random-based drand48(3).
• A couple modules were patched to say use foo x instead of use foo x.y due to Sortix's lack of floating point support.
• ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL didn't detect the host operating system when cross-compiling.
• ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL had way too complicated and fragile logic to find the errno header when simply dumping the macros of preprocessing an #include <errno.h> would do.
• pause(3) fallback implemented using sigsuspend(3) as pause(3) can't really be used without race conditions.
• Worked around Sortix's lack of mkfifo(3) and mknod(3).
• Worked around Sortix's lack of ctermid(3).
• lib/unicore/mktables had an error removed because it erroneously happened due to the lack of floating point support.
• The Makefile.PL invocations were patched with LINKTYPE=static due to the default dynamic value.
• The perl-cross Makefile has -j race condition issues poorly worked around, the install.man target had a dependency severed to avoid make(1) livelocking in some cases.
• Fixed the clean Makefile target assuming -j1 by moving some logic to distclean.
• Fixed typo in the clean-modules Makefile target so it actually recurses into the modules.
• Added distclean makefile target to handle perl and perl-cross being terrible at cleaning up properly.
• Added post-install step that deletes the huge documentation and huge statically linked libraries to save space.
• Added support not not having putenv(3) and only setenv(3) and unsetenv(3).
• Worked around lack of floating point support in version number parsing with integer math.

pkg-config

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2017-10-23	pkg-config-0.29.2	2017-03-20		pkg-config.patch

• The cross-compiled tool was installed with a toolchain prefix. (Patched)
• Release is not distclean and contains config.h.win32. (Patched)
• This program is a bit too core to depend on glib, it should either be rewritten or we should switch to another implementation.

python

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Euclid	2020-12-06	Python-3.6.0	2016-12-23	Python-3.6.3	python.patch

• Required knowledge about the host operating system.
• Only cross-compiled to white-listed systems.
• configure may detect libiconv needed to be linked with in the wrong order.
• Assumed getaddrinfo is buggy when cross-compiling.
• Some problems if the host operating system doesn't do dynamic linking.
• Funky semantics regarding what version suffixes the installed python programs get.
• Removed python-config.
• Looks like it might use POSIX advisory locks.
• Had trouble with the empty prefix being the root directory at runtime?
• Had a use of putenv not wrapped in HAVE_PUTENV.
• Used the obsolete gethostbynameand gethostbyaddrinterfaces.
• Checked for /dev/ptmx and /dev/ptxc during configure (and failed to cross-build) even though posix_openpt exists, and openpty() ends up being used anyways.
• Bundles its own libz.
• python/Modules/socketmodule.c hard-codes SOL_TCP to 6 and SOL_UDP to 17 instead of using the standard IPPROTO_TCP and IPPROTO_UDP constants. Some Python test code also uses the SOL_TCP constant.
• Uses the obsolete clock() function in a few files.
• Bundles its own libffi.
• Pip stuff and such gets installed into /usr and might be downloaded. Investigate ensurepip. Disabled this for now.
• LDSHARED and LDCXXSHARED defaulted to ld (rather than $CC -shared) on unknown operating systems.
• Patched to use arc4random rather than urandom.
• Modules/Setup.dist changed to static link as many modules as possible
• ssl module not static linked as static modules can't be optional.
• libcurses module not static linked as static modules can't be optional.
• Bootstrap phase for cross-builds as the exact same python version must be installed in order to cross-compile.
• Assumed MAXPATHLEN existed for the purpose of realpath.
• Exposes inet_addr and inet_ntoa to python code which was changed to inet_pton and inet_ntop.
• Tried to find libncurses in /usr/include/ncursesw even when cross-compiling.
• Worked around minor compatibility issues with the imported NetBSD libcurses having some declarations in term.h and termcap.h, _ISPAD being private, and missing a couple features.
• Worked around importing ctypes requiring dlopen on the program to work.
• _ssl module had minor libressl compatibility issues due to an insufficient version check.
• Sortix lacks timezone/altzone/daylight.

qemu

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-04-02	qemu-2.7.0	2017-02-07	qemu-4.2.0	qemu.patch

• A use of gethostbyname was replaced by getaddrinfo.
• Bundles pixman.
• configure assumes unknown systems are Linux.
• configure didn't respect CC_FOR_BUILD.
• configure didn't't detect NetBSD libcurses properly, at least my old version.
• configure script didn't have --exec-prefix, --build, --host, --target.
• configure used sdl-config, libgcrypt-config, aalib-config, curl-config.
• Conflicted with ID_MAX.
• curses support can't handle resizing windows due to old NetBSD libcurses.
• Custom configure script with a few problems.
• Doesn't understand the block sizes of Sortix block devices in block/raw-posix.c.
• Fixed printf pid_t issues.
• Relies on O_DYSNC, O_DIRECT, PATH_MAX, FILENAME_MAX, u_char, caddr_t.
• Sortix needs memalign, replaced with malloc
• Sortix needs pthread_kill to send IPIs between threads.
• Sortix needs sigwait (seems doable as Sortix has sigsuspend?)
• The GUI window doesn't properly die with ^Q, kill -TERM doesn't seem to work properly either.
• The port can be cleaned up once file descriptor passing is implemented.
• The port can be cleaned up once networking is merged.
• There's a workaround for building roms with the host compiler/assembler instead as Sortix binutils is too old.
• Python 2 build code migrated to Python 3.
• Assembly used slashes which Sortix as(1) incorrectly thought was a comment character.

quake

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2020-07-27	2014-12-27	2014-12-27		quake.patch

This is a Sortix fork of quake's source code.

• Uses the obsolete clock() function in the SDL backend.
• Used inet_addr and inet_ntoa instead of the modern inet_ntop and inet_pton.

quake-shareware

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2014-04-28	2014-04-28	2013-11-13		quake-shareware.patch

This is the game content for the quake shareware edition.

sed

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2014-04-28	sed-4.2	2009-04-30	sed-4.2.2	sed.patch

• Usual cross-compiling and locale issues.

tar

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2015-08-23	tar-1.28	2014-07-27		tar.patch

• Usual gnulib dose.
• Uses of the obsolete gethostbyname interface.
• Makes a /sbin directory for no good reason.
• Contains a scary malfeature to connect over ssh to operate on remote tarballs, and it can be triggered with just malicious paths.
• Tar 1.28 has a regression on systems without xattr.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.

texinfo

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-07-23	texinfo-6.8	2021-07-03		texinfo.patch

• Unusual gnulib infection but maybe it's not so bad these days.
• The distclean Makefile target didn't properly clean up the .deps directories and gnulib/lib/sys.

video-player

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Sortix	2016-02-20	Sortix	2016-02-20		video-player.patch

This is a small video-player written by me for Sortix.

vim

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2021-02-12	vim-8.0	2016-09-12		vim.patch

• Tarball vim-8.0.tar.bz2 contains vm80/ and not vim-8.0/.
• Scary amounts of sprintf.
• Appears to have UTF-8 issues on Sortix.
• Cross-compilation requires setting environment variables to cache values to assure it I'm not a really broken system.
• One configure test needs a #include <termcap.h> inclusion to avoid an implicit function declaration error.
• Assumes all Unix systems have sync().
• Collision with SFNAME from <sortix/fork.h>.
• Randomness code changed to use arc4random() instead.
• Appears reasonable to get down to almost no patching by upstreaming some fixes.
• The configure script should be told the location of carious interpreters like python on the host system for the purpose of cross-compilation.
• configure had -Werror=implicit-function-declaration issues because it didn't include stdlib.h twice in tests.

wget

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Alright	2021-04-02	wget-1.18	2016-06-09	wget-1.19.1	wget.patch

• Usual gnulib issues.
• Use of <sys/param.h>.
• Use of flock.
• Cross unsafe use of $GPGME_CONFIG.
• Doesn't have certificate failures when getting https on Sortix.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.
• Installs /etc/wgetrc that needs sysadmin/OS-defaults separation in /etc/default.

xargs

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
OpenBSD	2016-02-20	2015-01-16 xargs.c v 1.28	2016-02-20	Yes	xargs.patch

xorriso

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Complicated	2015-12-18	xorriso-1.3.8	2014-06-27	xorriso-1.4.0	xorriso.patch

• Complications: Suspiciously its own style, needs an audit.
• Scary amounts of sprintf.
• Strict aliasing violations in custom SHA code.
• Releases aren't distclean.
• Really likes the useless timezone parameter to gettimeofday.
• Wants langinfo.h that Sortix doesn't have yet.
• Wants pthread cancellation that Sortix doesn't have.
• Wants mknod that Sortix doesn't have.
• Wants getgroups that Sortix doesn't have yet.

xz

Status	Updated	Version	Released	New Version	Patch
Good	2015-08-24	xz-5.2.1	2015-02-26		xz.patch

• Has to have OS-specific API knowledge so it can determine how much memory it should use.
• Too much what-if-inttypes-is-broken logic in lzma.h, delete it for good measure.
• LZMA_API_STATIC shouldn't be a thing.
• Needs to depend on libintl rather than gettext.0