“Patching incompatible software”
What does that mean? If glibc is supported why there is a portability issueand requirement of patches?
They are likely referring to musl. Patches might be needed for some programs to work with musl.
I have checked the void website and it does NOT support glibc. Here is it:
Wait edit: there is musl variant and glibc variant…
Incompatible software
musl practices very strict and minimal standard compliance. Many commonly used platform-specific extensions are not present. Because of this, it is common for software to need modification to compile and/or function properly. Void developers work to patch such software and hopefully get portability/correctness changes accepted into the upstream projects.
Proprietary software usually supports only glibc systems, though sometimes such applications are available as flatpaks and can be run on a musl system. In particular, the proprietary NVIDIA drivers do not support musl, which should be taken into account when evaluating hardware compatibility.
glibc chroot
Software requiring glibc can be run in a glibc chroot.
Well if glibc is supported all glibc softwares must work right?? Patching the software to support musl would not be needed if it does support glibc