bug#36276: Not found .so files in bundle made by guix pack

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Andréas Livet <address@hidden> skribis:

> Found a solution !
>
> https://superuser.com/a/1348051

Good!  So you ran:

  strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag \
     ./gnu/store/…/lib/libQt5Core.so.5

right?

Indeed the .so file produced by Guix has this section:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ file -L 
/gnu/store/y1nlilwa34wqvmvmraggwv12jfdp0kya-qtbase-5.11.3/lib/libQt5Core.so
/gnu/store/y1nlilwa34wqvmvmraggwv12jfdp0kya-qtbase-5.11.3/lib/libQt5Core.so: 
ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically 
linked, interpreter 
/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
 for GNU/Linux 3.16.0, stripped
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

… which reflects in the “for GNU/Linux 3.16.0” that we see above.

What does “uname -r” return on this CentOS machine?  I’m guessing it’s
older than 3.16.0.

The effect of the ‘strip’ command is that libQt5Base.so can be loaded,
but some functionality maybe missing (things that use the ‘renameat2’
system call specifically; see below.)

> Do you think it is related to guix pack in some way ?

I researched it a bit and in qtbase, in
‘src/corelib/global/minimum-linux_p.h’, we can see this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#if QT_CONFIG(getentropy)
#  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        3
#  define MINLINUX_MINOR        17
#  define MINLINUX_PATCH        0
#elif QT_CONFIG(renameat2)
#  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        3
#  define MINLINUX_MINOR        16
#  define MINLINUX_PATCH        0
#else
#  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        2
#  define MINLINUX_MINOR        6
#  define MINLINUX_PATCH        28
#endif
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Since we build Qt with ‘renameat2’ support, Qt effectively requires a
Linux kernel >= 3.16.0.

We could build it without that requirement; 3.16.0 is already rather
old, so I’m not sure we should do it.

Thoughts?

(Note that the Guix package already has a patch to allow it to work with
kernels < 4.11.)

Ludo’.