Re: ampere2's main-armv7 crashed after only 3 min 51 sec, nothing started to build; libdm.so.{6->7} issues

On ampere3 armv7 builds crashed in the same way. 
https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/ampere3/
Regards,Ronald

Van: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Datum: 13 oktober 2024 22:13
Aan: Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD ARM List <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
CC: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: ampere2's main-armv7 crashed after only 3  min 51 sec, nothing started to build; libdm.so.{6->7} issues

> 
> main-armv7 crashed before it was at a stage that has public log files to look
> at.
> 
> I report this mostly because the currently distributed main-packages for ports
> that involve use of libmd.so.6 are broken because main now has/uses libmd.so.7
> instead --so libmd.so.6 tends to be missing. Even when libmd.so.6 and
> libmd.so.7 both exist, the pkg (non -static) command is broken from the
> recursive dependencies ending up referencing both. (pkg-static works but pkg
> does not.)
> 
> It might be that the crash is because of the libmd.so.6 to libmd.so.7 change
> in main. But I've no access to logs to look at.
> 
> It would be good to avoid having another main-arm64 bulk -a happen before
> main-armv7 has a chance to produce main-armv7 packages with libmd.so.7
> references so that ports are again good for (modern) main-FreeBSD [so: 15].
> 
> But it seems that, for main-arm* port-packages, either:
> 
> 0) various distributed ports are incompatible with libmd.so.7 based
>     main-FreeBSD (the current context for main-armv7)
> 
> vs.
> 
> 1) various distributed ports will be incompatible with libmd.so.6
>      based main-FreeBSD (so: older main/15 FreeBSD installations):
>      the future contexts for main-armv7 and main-arm64 (and more).
> 
> 
> FYI: The libmd.so.{6->7} change dates back to 2024-Sep-30 in FreeBSD's main.
> But the __FreeBSD_version 150002{3->4} change did not happen until
> 2024-Oct-02.
> 
> 
> main-powerpc-default's status for such:
> 
> Looks like FreeBSD:15:powerpc/latest/ was last updated on 2024-Mar-07
> and so might not have the issue --by no longer having port-package
> updates of any kind. (32-bit powerpc is not to be supported by
> releng/15.0 as I understand: The only 32-bit platform will be armv7
> as I understand.)
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
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