Re: `make check` doesn't pass on MacOS Catalina

On 2022-08-06 Sa 11:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I came across this when I was working on setting up some Dockerfiles for
>> the buildfarm. Apparently LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't work on Alpine, at
>> least out of the box, as it uses a different linker, and "make check"
>> relies on it (or the moral equivalent) if "make install" hasn't been run.
> I did some quick googling on this point.  We seem not to be the only
> project having linking issues on Alpine, and yet it does support
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH according to some fairly authoritative-looking pages, eg
>
> https://www.musl-libc.org/doc/1.0.0/manual.html
>
> I suspect the situation is similar to macOS, ie there is some limitation
> somewhere on whether LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets passed through.  If memory
> serves, the problem on SIP-enabled Mac is that DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is
> cleared upon invoking bash, so that we lose it anywhere that "make"
> invokes a shell to run a subprogram.  (Hmm ... I wonder whether ninja
> uses the shell ...)  I don't personally care at all about Alpine, but
> maybe somebody who does could dig a little harder and characterize
> the problem there better.
>
>             


We probably should care about Alpine, because it's a good distro to use
as the basis for Docker images, being fairly secure, very small, and
booting very fast.

I'll dig some more, and possibly set up a (docker based) buildfarm instance.


cheers


andrew


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