https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/ Issue: net-libs/xrootd-5.4.3-r2 fails tests (lto). Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: lto_tinderbox) NOTE: This machine uses lto with CFLAGS=-flto -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasing Here is a bit of explanation: -Werror=lto-type-mismatch: User to find possible runtime issues in packages. It likely means the package is unsafe to build & use with LTO. For projects using the same identifier but with different types across different files, they must be fixed to be consistent across the codebase. -Werror=odr: Used to find possible runtime issues in packages. These bugs are a problem anyway but may be even worse when combined with LTO. C++ code must comply with the One Definition Rule (ODR) - see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/definition#One_Definition_Rule. -Werror=strict-aliasing: Used to find possible runtime issues in packages. These bugs are a problem anyway but may be even worse when combined with LTO. Workarounds: - If upstream is friendly and still active, file a bug upstream. For emulators, codecs, games, or multimedia packages, it may be worth just applying a workaround instead, as upstreams sometimes aren't receptive to these bugs (VALID FOR ALL). - Use the new 'filter-lto' from flag-o-matic.eclass as it's likely to be unsafe with LTO (VALID FOR lto-type-mismatch - odr). - Fix it yourself if interested, of course (VALID FOR ALL). - Append-flags -fno-strict-aliasing (VALID FOR strict-aliasing). - Use memcpy() but a union is sometimes suitable too (VALID FOR strict-aliasing). - -fstrict-aliasing is implied by -O2, so this must be addressed in some form (VALID FOR strict-aliasing). See also: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=165639574126280&w=2
Created attachment 824665 [details] build.log build log and emerge --info
Error(s) that match a know pattern: -- Package 'json-c', required by 'virtual:world', not found -- Could NOT find Macaroons (missing: MACAROONS_INCLUDES MACAROONS_LIB) -- Could NOT find SciTokensCpp (missing: SCITOKENS_CPP_LIBRARIES SCITOKENS_CPP_INCLUDE_DIR) -- Could NOT find TinyXml (missing: TINYXML_LIBRARIES TINYXML_INCLUDE_DIR) /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xrootd-5.4.3-r2/temp/environment: line 4470: 26 Segmentation fault ./common/test-runner ./XrdClTests/libXrdClTests.so "All Tests/UtilsTest/"
We've completely removed cppunit tests and migrated everything to GoogleTest upstream. The ticket on GitHub is https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/2051.
I actually just tried this with 5.6.7 and 5.6.9 and `ebuild ... clean test` seemed to work with LTO just fine? The migration to googletest isn't part of those releases though.
Marking this as resolved. net-libs/xrootd-5.6.7 is the oldest version in the tree now, and in 5.7.0 (released on July 1st), the cppunit tests are completely gone.