oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/cockroach
cockroach: /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by cockroach)
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- Go
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Description
We build cockroach on Ubuntu, which follows Debian's lead in building ncurses with --with-versioned-syms; a number of distros (apparently including Gentoo) don't set this. This results in ld.so printing to stderr:
cockroach: /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by cockroach)
which is safe to ignore, but means that some assumptions we've made in Omicron's cockroach-admin don't hold on certain Linux distros, causing a couple of that crate's tests to fail when run on certain distros.
We might want to consider doing the Linux build in an old-as-hell container image similar to how CRL does their Linux builds.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the Linux build configuration and the referenced Omicron cockroach-admin assumptions at src/cockroach_cli.rs lines 19–22. Reproduce the linker warning and the affected crate test failures on a distro without versioned ncurses symbols, then compare the existing CRL Linux build approach. Done means the relevant tests pass on those distros without relying on the warning being absent.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, linux
- Domain
- build-system, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100