Support for Alpine Linux (musl libc)

[shabmk]

As suggested on JuliaLang/julia#30314 (comment) I'm opening the issue here on the appropriate repository to request Julia prebuilt binaries for Alpine Linux.

System information:

• Alpine Linux x86_64
• Linux 4.14.86-0-vanilla
• Musl 1.1.20
• BusyBox 1.29.3

Julia 0.6 was known to build on Alpine Linux, but was removed because they couldn't get the tests to pass. Some of them failed.

If any other information is needed, please request and I will happily provide.
Merry Xmas.

[staticfloat]

Hello @shabmk I'm really sorry that it's taken so long for me to find this, in the future please feel free to ping me via @staticfloat if I don't respond.

I think it will be reasonable for us to provide an x86_64 musl-linked version of Julia in the future. I can't say exactly when this will be available, but it's not too much work, we just need to add an alpine configuration to this Makefile to generate docker images to build a buildworker that runs on Alpine, then add its configuration into this repository.

[rana]

Looking forward to an alpine release. Will help with running docker images

[ararslan]

We've been producing official binaries for musl Linux for a few releases now, so I'm going to close this. 🙂