Fix static linking when system libraries installed - #93
Conversation
Ruby's mkmf appears to list `RbConfig::CONFIG['exec_prefix']/lib` first in the search path when building a C extension. If you have libre2 installed in that path, the linker will use that library instead of the vendored library. This adds a test to ensure this case is covered.
Ruby's mkmf appears to list `RbConfig::CONFIG['exec_prefix']/lib` first in the search path when building a C extension. If you have libre2 installed in that path, the linker will use that library instead of the vendored library. This causes an undefined symbol error when using the extension. ``` /usr/local/bin/ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/bundle/gems/re2-2.0.0.beta1/lib/re2.so: undefined symbol: _ZN3re23RE2C1ESt17basic_string_viewIcSt11char_traitsIcEERKNS0_7OptionsE ``` This commit does two things to ensure the final shared library is compiled statically with the vendored libraries: 1. For -L<path> flags, ensure that any `ports` paths are prioritized just in case there are installed libraries that might take precedence. 2. For -l<lib> flags, convert the library to the static library with a full path and substitute the absolute static library. For example, -lre2 maps to /path/to/ports/<arch>/libre2/<version>/lib/libre2.a.
|
Is any part of this worth upstreaming into MiniPortile2 or is it specific to our setup? |
Good question. I think this is outside the purview of MiniPortile2; Nokogiri does something similar. I suspect |
| path: gems | ||
| - run: ./scripts/test-gem-install gems --enable-system-libraries | ||
| - name: Add a symlink for libre2 | ||
| run: ln -s /usr/lib/libre2.so `ruby -e "puts RbConfig::CONFIG['exec_prefix']"`/lib/libre2.so |
There was a problem hiding this comment.
What is exec_prefix on these runners?
There was a problem hiding this comment.
I haven't looked, but according to https://github.com/mudge/re2/actions/runs/6126602337/job/16630989217?pr=93, I suspect it's something like /opt/hostedtoolcache/Ruby/3.1.4/x64. ruby/setup-ruby#140 describes another way of retrieving the prefix.
| have_func("rb_str_sublen") | ||
|
|
||
| unless have_library("re2") | ||
| if !static_p and !have_library("re2") |
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Are we basically using our own variant of have_library when using MiniPortile2 here because we need to override the linker config to give our vendored dependencies priority?
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Yes, we're linking the .a explicitly instead of using -lre2. The latter will pick up the system dependency if it's installed in a certain location, and I don't believe there's anything we can do about that.
|
Does this avoid the problems you ran into with #64 because we control the compilation of libre2 and can ensure it generates position-independent code or is there a scenario where we might run into that again? |
2 participants
Ruby's mkmf appears to list
RbConfig::CONFIG['exec_prefix']/libfirst in the search path when building a C extension. If you have libre2 installed in that path, the linker will use that library instead of the vendored library. This causes an undefined symbol error when using the extension:This commit does two things to ensure the final shared library is compiled statically with the vendored libraries:
For
-L<path>flags, ensure that anyportspaths are prioritized just in case there are installed libraries that might take precedence.For
-l<lib>flags, convert the library to the static library with a full path and substitute the absolute static library. For example, -lre2 maps to/path/to/ports/<arch>/libre2/<version>/lib/libre2.a.