[PATCH] test-container: disable ld.so system cache on DSO detection
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Oct 23 14:08:22 GMT 2023
On 23/10/23 07:11, Simon Chopin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Quoting Adhemerval Zanella Netto (2023-10-17 16:48:55)
>>
>>
>> On 05/10/23 09:54, Simon Chopin wrote:
>>> When building the testroot, the script runs the newly built ld.so on a
>>> couple of binaries in order to copy over any additional libararies
>>
>> s/libararies/libraries
>>
>>> needed. However, if the dependencies are found in the system cache, it
>>> will be copied over using that path.
>>>
>>> This is problematic if the system ld.so and the one built don't have the
>>> exact same search configuration. We encountered this in Ubuntu, where we
>>> build a variant of libc with -fno-omit-frame-pointer for accurate
>>> performance profiling.
>>>
>>> This variant is built using a non-standard slibdir to be able to be
>>> co-installed with the default library (e.g. slibdir = /lib/libc6-prof).
>>> Since we have /lib pointing to /usr/lib, any additional dependency
>>> should still be reachable via /usr. However, resolving via the cache
>>> might result in the additional DSOs being copied into $testroot/lib, out
>>> of the search path in the container.
>>>
>>> The problem has been triggered by 1d5024f4f052c12e404d42d3b5bfe9c3e9fd27c4
>>> ("support: Build with exceptions and asynchronous unwind tables [BZ #30587]")
>>> which introduced a dependency on libgcc_s.so.1 under some circumstances.
>>>
>>> Downstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/2031495
>>
>> It makes sense to inhibit cache on testroot creation, although default
>> system dirs will always be used.
>>
>> LGTM, thanks.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
>
> Sorry, my experience of ML-based contributions is pretty limited. Am I
> expected to send a V2 to fix the typo in the commit log?
>
> If I need to send a V2, should it include the Reviewed-by tag?
No need, I will commit in your behalf with the commit message fixed.
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