Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>

Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, peter@eisentraut.org, Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Date: 2024-03-20T13:37:30Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers

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Allow "make check"-style testing to work with musl C library.
- d82605bcd666 14.12 landed
- 8a92b70c11ba 17.0 landed
- 7651fd387697 16.3 landed
- 7124e7d528a8 12.19 landed
- 3c3f4fd741d0 15.7 landed
- 243e9953281f 13.15 landed
Fix compiler warnings on MSYS2
- 8c6d30f21139 13.0 cited

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 09:35:51AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +0100, Wolfgang Walther wrote:
> > I also put together a PoC of what was mentioned in musl's mailing list:
> > Instead of clobbering environ at all, exec yourself again with padded argv0.
> > This works, too. Attached.
> 
> It is hard to imagine why we would add an extra exec on every Linux
> server start for this.

I guess we could conditionally exec only if we find we must, but then
such exec cases would be rare and rarely tested.

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