Compiling on Alpine

There are at least two gotchas on Alpine Linux to compile Varnish.

  • jemalloc isn’t present on that platform so you will need to pass –without-jemalloc to configure so the build system uses the default libc’s malloc functions.

  • libexecinfo has issues making the panics useless, it is recommended to use libunwind instead, by passing –with-unwind to configure.