Re: Investigating Cirrus CI FreeBSD failures

[Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>]

Hi Ed,

Le 2022-05-30 à 12:09, Ed Maste a écrit :
> On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 20:38, Philippe Blain
> <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I spent a bit of time investigating the Git Cirrus-CI failures on FreeBSD.
>> It seems something goes wrong with the Perl installation, as most failures
>> are in t9001-send-email.sh, and the error messages are:
>>
>> ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.32/mach/CORE/libperl.so.5.32: Undefined symbol "strerror_l@FBSD_1.6"
> 
> Ah, what happened here is that this is picking up the perl package
> built on 12.3 (i.e., the earliest supported FreeBSD 12.x) which added
> strerror_l.
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d3912bec58d0b82509a0973cae02f156986d88fa

OK, so it is expected that the Cirrus 12.2 image would install this newer
version of the perl package which if I understand correctly is not compatible
with this version ?

Is there a way to tell pkg not to update packages to incompatible versions,
or is the FreeBSD policy that as soon as a release is marked as unsupported, 
then no guarantee is made that things (like installing packages) continue working 
on that version ?

> 
>> I know next to nothing about Perl or FreeBSD, but simply changing our image
>> to FreeBSD 13.0 makes all failures in t9001 disappear [2]:
>>
>> ...
>> Is this something that we should do ? Or should we stick to FreeBSD 12
>> and try to debug this installation problem ?
> 
> I expect this could have been addressed also by updating to 12.3.
> Cirrus also supports "matrix" so both could be tested.
> 

For now we opted to just update to 12.3, see [1].

Thanks for your answer,

Philippe.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220525125112.86954-1-levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com/