Modify logger to print backtraces for critical messages

BUILD.bazel

@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ cc_binary(
         "//src/sta:opensta_lib",
         "//src/utl",
         "@boost.stacktrace",
+        "@com_google_absl//absl/debugging:symbolize",
         "@rules_cc//cc/runfiles",
         "@tk_tcl//:tcl",
     ],

src/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -144,9 +144,11 @@ if (SWIG_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "4.1.0")
 endif()
 include(UseSWIG)
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG REQUIRED)
+find_package(Boost CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS iostreams serialization system thread)
 message(STATUS "boost: ${Boost_VERSION}")
 
+find_package(absl REQUIRED)
+
 if (ENABLE_TESTS)
   find_package(GTest REQUIRED)
   message(STATUS "GTest: ${GTest_VERSION}")

src/Main.cc

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <system_error>
 
+#include "absl/debugging/symbolize.h"
 #include "boost/stacktrace/stacktrace.hpp"
 #include "tcl.h"
 #ifdef ENABLE_READLINE
@@ -221,6 +222,9 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
   signal(SIGILL, handler);
   signal(SIGSEGV, handler);
 
+  // Initialize absl's symbolizer
+  absl::InitializeSymbolizer(argv[0]);
+
   if (argc == 2 && stringEq(argv[1], "-help")) {
     showUsage(argv[0], init_filename);
     return 0;

src/cts/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 # Copyright (c) 2019-2025, The OpenROAD Authors
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG REQUIRED)
-
 add_subdirectory(src)
 if (ENABLE_TESTS)
     add_subdirectory(test)

src/dft/test/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -16,5 +16,4 @@ or_integration_tests(
 #dft_man_tcl_check
 #dft_readme_msgs_check
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG)
 add_subdirectory(cpp)

src/dpl/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 include("openroad")
 find_package(TCL)
-find_package(Boost CONFIG)
 find_package(LEMON NAMES LEMON lemon REQUIRED)
 swig_lib(NAME         dpl
          NAMESPACE    dpl

src/drt/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
 include(CheckIPOSupported)
 check_ipo_supported(RESULT ipo_supported OUTPUT error)
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS serialization)
 find_package(OpenMP REQUIRED)
 find_package(VTune)
 

src/dst/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ project(dst
   LANGUAGES CXX
 )
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS serialization system thread)
 swig_lib(NAME      dst
          NAMESPACE dst
          I_FILE    src/Distributed.i

src/utl/BUILD

@@ -13,11 +13,28 @@ package(
     features = ["layering_check"],
 )
 
+cc_library(
+    name = "decode",
+    srcs = [
+        "src/decode.cpp",
+    ],
+    hdrs = [
+        "include/utl/decode.h",
+    ],
+    includes = [
+        "include",
+        "src",
+    ],
+    deps = [
+        "@tk_tcl//:tcl",
+    ],
+)
+
 # TODO: the prometheus target should be broken out, and possibly logger.
 # However, there are cyclic dependencies currently between all these, which
 # need to be taken care of first
 cc_library(
-    name = "utl",
+    name = "utl_without_decode",
     srcs = [
         "src/CFileUtils.cpp",
         "src/CallBack.cpp",
@@ -29,7 +46,6 @@ cc_library(
         "src/Progress.cpp",
         "src/ScopedTemporaryFile.cpp",
         "src/SuppressStdout.cpp",
-        "src/decode.cpp",
         "src/histogram.cpp",
         "src/mem_stats.cpp",
         "src/prometheus/metrics_server.cpp",
@@ -45,7 +61,6 @@ cc_library(
         "include/utl/ScopedTemporaryFile.h",
         "include/utl/SuppressStdout.h",
         "include/utl/algorithms.h",
-        "include/utl/decode.h",
         "include/utl/deleter.h",
         "include/utl/exception.h",
         "include/utl/histogram.h",
@@ -80,16 +95,64 @@ cc_library(
         "src",
     ],
     deps = [
-        "//src/sta:opensta_lib",
         "@boost.algorithm",
         "@boost.asio",
         "@boost.beast",
         "@boost.core",
         "@boost.iostreams",
         "@boost.iterator",
         "@boost.random",
+        "@com_google_absl//absl/debugging:stacktrace",
+        "@com_google_absl//absl/debugging:symbolize",
         "@spdlog",
-        "@tk_tcl//:tcl",
+    ],
+)
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "utl",
+    hdrs = [
+        "include/utl/CFileUtils.h",
+        "include/utl/CallBack.h",
+        "include/utl/CallBackHandler.h",
+        "include/utl/Logger.h",
+        "include/utl/Metrics.h",
+        "include/utl/Progress.h",
+        "include/utl/ScopedTemporaryFile.h",
+        "include/utl/SuppressStdout.h",
+        "include/utl/algorithms.h",
+        "include/utl/decode.h",
+        "include/utl/deleter.h",
+        "include/utl/exception.h",
+        "include/utl/histogram.h",
+        "include/utl/mem_stats.h",
+        "include/utl/options.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/atomic_floating.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/benchmark.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/builder.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/ckms_quantiles.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/client_metric.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/collectable.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/counter.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/family.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/gauge.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/hash.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/histogram.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/metric_family.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/metrics_server.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/prometheus_metric.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/registry.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/save_to_file.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/summary.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/text_serializer.h",
+        "include/utl/prometheus/time_window_quantiles.h",
+        "include/utl/scope.h",
+        "include/utl/timer.h",
+        "include/utl/unique_name.h",
+        "include/utl/validation.h",
+    ],
+    deps = [
+        ":decode",
+        ":utl_without_decode",
     ],
 )
 

src/utl/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 
 include("openroad")
 
-find_package(Boost CONFIG 1.78 REQUIRED COMPONENTS iostreams)
-
 swig_lib(NAME      utl
          NAMESPACE utl
          I_FILE    src/Logger.i
@@ -35,7 +33,32 @@ if (Python3_FOUND AND BUILD_PYTHON)
   )
 endif()
 
-add_library(utl_lib
+#
+# Isolate TCL dependency to decode
+#
+add_library(utl_decode
+  src/decode.cpp
+)
+
+target_include_directories(utl_decode
+  PUBLIC
+    include
+  PRIVATE
+    src
+    ${TCL_INCLUDE_PATH}
+)
+
+target_link_libraries(utl_decode
+  PUBLIC
+    spdlog::spdlog
+  PRIVATE
+    ${TCL_LIBRARY}
+)
+
+#
+# Avoid TCL in the rest of utl
+#
+add_library(utl_base
   src/CallBackHandler.cpp
   src/CallBack.cpp
   src/Metrics.cpp
@@ -47,25 +70,34 @@ add_library(utl_lib
   src/CommandLineProgress.cpp
   src/timer.cpp
   src/mem_stats.cpp
-  src/decode.cpp
   src/prometheus/metrics_server.cpp
   src/histogram.cpp
 )
 
-target_include_directories(utl_lib
+target_include_directories(utl_base
   PUBLIC
     include
   PRIVATE
     src
     ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-    ${TCL_INCLUDE_PATH}
+    absl::stacktrace
+    absl::symbolize
 )
 
-target_link_libraries(utl_lib
+target_link_libraries(utl_base
   PUBLIC
     spdlog::spdlog
-    ${TCL_LIBRARY}
     ${Boost_LIBRARIES}
+    absl::stacktrace
+    absl::symbolize
+)
+
+add_library(utl_lib INTERFACE)
+
+target_link_libraries(utl_lib
+  INTERFACE
+    utl_base
+    utl_decode
 )
 
 target_sources(utl
@@ -90,6 +122,7 @@ target_compile_definitions(utl
 target_link_libraries(utl
   PUBLIC
     utl_lib
+    utl_decode
 )
 
 messages(