On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 01:21:55PM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30 2019, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > net/powerdns does not work well on sparc64. It is a C++ program that
> > uses exceptions quite extensively. The case I'm running into is a
> > unknown item in a config file. The code should catch the exception and
> > exit gracefully with an proper error message, but instead a catch-all
> > is being hit:
> >
> > Jan 30 13:12:42 Reading random entropy from '/dev/urandom'
> > Jan 30 13:12:42 Loading '/usr/local/lib/pdns/libgsqlite3backend.so'
> > Jan 30 13:12:42 This is a standalone pdns
> > Jan 30 13:12:42 Listening on controlsocket in '/var/run/pdns.controlsocket'
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PDNSException'
> > terminate called recursively
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> >
> > Is C++ exception handling a known broken thing on sparc64?
> >
> > Any suggested remedy or should the port just be marked broken for
> > sparc64?
> >
> > On amd64 the config file error is handled correctly.
>
> I've noticed this in the last sparc64 bulk build report:
>
>
> http://build-failures.rhaalovely.net//sparc64/2019-01-10/net/amule,-daemon.log
>
> I haven't looked into the details yet. It might be a fluke, or it might
> support your "exceptions are broken" theory.
This is reproducable on 6.3 and 6.4, so it is not recent breakage.
I'll try to write a test program.
-Otto
