[ClusterLabs Developers] [libqb] heads-up: logging not working with binutils-2.29 standard linker (ld.bfd)

[Christine Caulfield]

On 19/10/17 21:49, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> On 03/08/17 20:50 +0200, Valentin Vidic wrote:
>>> Proper solution:
>>> - give me few days to investigate better ways to deal with this
> 
> well, that estimate was off... by far :)
> 
> But given the goals of
> - as high level of isolation of the client space from the linker
>   (respectively toolchain) subtleties as possible (no new compilation
>   flags an such on that side)
> - universality, as you don't really want to instruct libqb users
>   to use this set of flags with linker A and this with linker B,
>   and there's no way to hook any computational ad-hoc decision
>   when the compilation is about to happen (and particular linker
>   to be used + it's version are quite obscured in the build pipeline
>   so only configure-like checks would be viable, anyway)
> - mapping the exact scope of the issue for basic combinations of
>   link participants each doing the logging on its own and possibly
>   differing in the linker used to build them into standalone shared
>   libraries or executable using the former + cranking up the runner
>   of the underlying test matrix
> - some reasonable assurance that logging is not silently severed (see
>   the headaches note below)
> I believe it was worth the effort.
> 
>>>   fancy linker, it will likely differ from the iterim one above
>>>   (so far, I had quite miserable knowledge of linker script and
>>>   other internals, getting better but not without headaches);
>>>   we should also ensure there's a safety net because realizing
>>>   there are logs missing when they are expected the most
>>>   ... priceless
>>
>> Thank you for the effort.  There is no rush here, we just won't
>> be able to upload new version to Debian unstable.
> 
> The reconciling patchset is not merged yet, but I'd say it's in the
> good shape: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/libqb/pull/266
> 
> Testing is requested, of course ;)

Thanks for all your efforts on this poki. I know it's been a long,
infuriating struggle but it's really appreciated.

I'll do some more testing on Monday

Chrissie