Thread: BUG #17898: Build failure when strip is LLVM's version
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 17898 Logged by: Ed Maste Email address: emaste@freebsd.org PostgreSQL version: 13.10 Operating system: FreeBSD Description: In FreeBSD we are experimenting with the use of LLVM's binutils-like tools, including installing llvm-objcopy as strip. When this is done PostgreSQL fails to build, with error ==== STRIPPROG='strip -x' /bin/sh ../../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 -s libpq.a '/wrkdirs/usr/ports/databases/postgresql13-client/work/stage/usr/local/lib/libpq.a' strip: error: '/wrkdirs/usr/ports/databases/postgresql13-client/work/stage/usr/local/lib/_inst.20299_': not stripping symbol '.L.str' because it is named in a relocation ==== This occurs because llvm-objcopy is more strict, compared to GNU strip or ELF Tool Chain strip. When -x is specified (i.e., discard all non-global symbols) but the object to strip contains symbols that cannot be discarded LLVM's strip emits an error. GNU and ELF Tool Chain strip instead just retain the referenced non-global symbols. Within the FreeBSD ports collection TCL and PostgreSQL are the only significant software packages affected by this issue. TCL addressed this by using --strip-unneeded instead of -x. FreeBSD bug report: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270769 LLVM issue: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/47468 TCL issue: https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/tktview/718de2132f487cf29dfdd0be2b90fcc0107c2aa7
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes: > In FreeBSD we are experimenting with the use of LLVM's binutils-like tools, > including installing llvm-objcopy as strip. When this is done PostgreSQL > fails to build, with error Thanks for the report. > Within the FreeBSD ports collection TCL and PostgreSQL are the only > significant software packages affected by this issue. TCL addressed this by > using --strip-unneeded instead of -x. We've done likewise [1]. regards, tom lane [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a14afd3bdc21c0c56401fb8cb2fce74f4b7dc446