systemd musl support is WIP

Posted Jan 26, 2026 23:13 UTC (Mon) by pevik (subscriber, #112535)
In reply to: Yay for Clang by jmalcolm
Parent article: GNU C Library 2.43 released

> Systemd has always insisted on Glibc and not worked with musl for example. And GNOME requires Systemd. and Glibc only works with GCC.

Thanks to postmarketOS folks systemd musl support is WIP:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/01/25/pmOS-update-2026...

First PR has been merged (more work will be needed):
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/38825

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systemd musl support is WIP

Posted Jan 27, 2026 9:02 UTC (Tue) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link] (1 responses)

Thank you for pointing out that the PostmarketOS and Adelie folks have been doing the work to bring systemd to musl. The chorus of replies above would have us believe that the musl ecosystem is full of freeloaders. Very far from it.

systemd musl support is WIP

Posted Jan 30, 2026 11:36 UTC (Fri) by dtardon (subscriber, #53317) [Link]

Well, 39 of the 41 (somewhat) musl-related commits merged since systemd 258 were authored by systemd developers (mainly Yu Watanabe)...

This is based on a simple query:

git log v258.. --grep musl --no-merges src