Re: test-rwlock1 failing on latest Fedora Rawhide

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 01:09:52AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:14:30PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:03:21AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:45:06PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:01:19PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > I checked the history of the Fedora package which adds these flags, and
> > > > it seems like --as-needed was added for:
> > > > 
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveExcessiveLinking
> > > > 
> > > > Removing -Wl,--as-needed fixes the problem.  However I'm still unclear
> > > > about this.  Is Fedora wrong?  Is hivex using gnulib wrongly?  Is
> > > > gnulib wrong?
> > > 
> > > We also build everything with --as-needed by default, but
> > > gnulib does the right thing nowadays by using
> > > -Wl,--push-state -Wl,--no-as-needed -lpthread -Wl,--pop-state
> > > instead of plain -lpthread.
> > 
> > hivex is using a very recent gnulib (34290cb926).
> > 
> > The test is linked with:
> > 
> > /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --preserve-dup-deps --mode=link gcc -O2
> > -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> > -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
> > -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
> > -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic
> > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection
> > -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now
> > -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -o test-thread_create
> > test-thread_create.o libtests.a ../../gnulib/lib/libgnu.la libtests.a
> > -pthread -Wl,--push-state -Wl,--no-as-needed -lpthread -Wl,--pop-state
> > 
> > As you can see from the last bit, the --push-state ... --pop-state
> > seems correct.  Yet the test still fails.
> 
> I see libtool is involved, and libtool is known to reorder arguments
> in a very unhelpful way.  Could you show the actual link command invoked
> by libtool, please?  I expect to see something like
> -Wl,--push-state -Wl,--no-as-needed -Wl,--pop-state ... -lpthread
> which doesn't make sense.

I've posted the entire build/check with V=1 here:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/2019-01-gnulib-hivex.txt

If you grep through that for "test-thread_create" you should find the
appropriate lines.

Rich.

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