[Bug general/23977] New: make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175

[Bug general/23977] New: make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175

[knappr2 at earthlink dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23977

            Bug ID: 23977
           Summary: make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175
           Product: elfutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: knappr2 at earthlink dot net
                CC: elfutils-devel at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

I am building elfutils >= 0.173 with GCC 8.2.0 on a SLES 12.3 system, and I
encounter the following error in the make check step:

        FAIL: run-ar.sh
        ...
        Testsuite summary for elfutils 0.173
       
============================================================================
        # TOTAL: 196
        # PASS:  192
        # SKIP:  3
        # XFAIL: 0
        # FAIL:  1
        # XPASS: 0
        # ERROR: 0
       
============================================================================
        See tests/test-suite.log
        Please report to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla
       
============================================================================
        Makefile:2163: recipe for target 'test-suite.log' failed
        make[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
        Makefile:2269: recipe for target 'check-TESTS' failed
        make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2

tests/test-suite.log points to the following:
        Create a new ar file with the .o files.
        ar: creating test.ar
        <pathTo>/elfutils-0.173/src/ar: cannot represent ar_uid: No such file
or directory
        <pathTo>/elfutils-0.173/src/ar: cannot create new file: No such file or
directory

FAIL run-ar.sh (exit status: 1)
        Makefile:3707: recipe for target 'check-am' failed
        make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2

Makefile:485: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed

All advice to resolve will be appreciated.


Best regards,

-Rashawn

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[Bug general/23977] make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175

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Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
Could you attach either the full tests/test-suite.log or the
tests/run-ar.sh.log file?

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[Bug general/23977] make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175

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Rashawn <knappr2 at earthlink dot net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Rashawn <knappr2 at earthlink dot net> ---
Created attachment 11451
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11451&action=edit
test-suite.log

Attached test-suite.log

--Rashawn

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[Bug general/23977] make check fails run-ar.sh in versions 0.173-0.175

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--- Comment #3 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
Comment on attachment 11451
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11451
test-suite.log

It looks like the file we want to put into the ar has a numeric uid that cannot
be represented in the ar header. I am not sure yet how that could happen.

Does it work if you do the build and run the test not on an nfs file system?

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--- Comment #4 from Rashawn <knappr2 at earthlink dot net> ---
(In reply to Mark Wielaard from comment #3)
> Comment on attachment 11451 [details]
> test-suite.log
> 
> It looks like the file we want to put into the ar has a numeric uid that
> cannot be represented in the ar header. I am not sure yet how that could
> happen.
> 
> Does it work if you do the build and run the test not on an nfs file system?

Hello Mark and others,

I did build onto the machine's local file system and encountered the same
error. I then went back and read through all of the configure options listed
via ./configure --help. I notice, in addition to --prefix, the
--enable-deterministic-archives might be worth trying as it is the only option
which mentions anything about archives, and based on the binutils description
of -D regarding setting uid and guids to zero it made sense because the make
check error complained about ar_uid. This worked, and I was able to install the
latest version 0.175 into the NFS allocation as originally planned. 

My configure line using GCC 8.0.2 ended up like this: ./configure
--prefix=$eupref --enable-deterministic-archives CC=gcc 2>&1 | tee
../build-out-files/2018_1212_elfutils-0.175_gcc-8.2.0_configure-01.out.

Thank you for your input and advice. I am happy to have this solved.

Regards,

-Rashawn

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Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME

--- Comment #5 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
(In reply to Rashawn from comment #4)
> I did build onto the machine's local file system and encountered the same
> error. I then went back and read through all of the configure options listed
> via ./configure --help. I notice, in addition to --prefix, the
> --enable-deterministic-archives might be worth trying as it is the only
> option which mentions anything about archives, and based on the binutils
> description of -D regarding setting uid and guids to zero it made sense
> because the make check error complained about ar_uid. This worked, and I was
> able to install the latest version 0.175 into the NFS allocation as
> originally planned. 
> 
> My configure line using GCC 8.0.2 ended up like this: ./configure
> --prefix=$eupref --enable-deterministic-archives CC=gcc 2>&1 | tee
> ../build-out-files/2018_1212_elfutils-0.175_gcc-8.2.0_configure-01.out.
> 
> Thank you for your input and advice. I am happy to have this solved.

I am somewhat surprised that this worked around the issue. But happy there is a
workaround. Lets close this for now. Thank for experimenting.

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