[Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command version 1.3.0-rc2 is released

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [ANNOUNCE] crash gcore command version 1.3.0-rc2 is released
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:59:04 -0400

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> This is the release of crash gcore command, version 1.3.0-rc2.
>> 
>> The version 1.3.0 is going to newly add ARM64 support, including
>> compat mode, and PPC64 support, and the purpose of this serise of rc
>> version releases is for verification by other architecture
>> maintainers. Please give me a verfication result as a reply to this
>> mail.
> 
> Hello Daisuke,
> 
> We have successfully tested the support for the ARM64 and PPC64 architectures.
> Thanks very much for accepting them.
> 

Thanks for your verification.

> However, I have attached one small patch to the gcore.mk file that is required
> for ARM64 in order to build the module in the "extensions" subdirectory
> of the crash source tree.
> 
> The standalone package builds OK on an ARM64 host:
> 
> # make -f gcore.mk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc2'
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_coredump.o libgcore/gcore_coredump.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_coredump_table.o libgcore/gcore_coredump_table.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_dumpfilter.o libgcore/gcore_dumpfilter.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_elf_struct.o libgcore/gcore_elf_struct.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_global_data.o libgcore/gcore_global_data.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_regset.o libgcore/gcore_regset.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_verbose.o libgcore/gcore_verbose.c
> gcc   -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 -Wall -I/usr/include/crash -I./libgcore -fPIC -DARM64 -DVERSION='"1.3.0-rc2"' -DRELEASE_DATE='"24 Oct 2014"' -DPERIOD='"2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014"' -c -o libgcore/gcore_arm64.o libgcore/gcore_arm64.c
> Make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/crash-gcore-command-1.3.0-rc2'
> # 
> 
> Note that the compile lines above contain -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 because
> of this "(shell arch)" section of the gcore.mk file:
> 
>   ifeq ($(shell arch), aarch64)
>     TARGET=ARM64
>     TARGET_CFLAGS=-D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1
>     ARCH=SUPPORTED
>   endif
>   
> However, when building the package from within a crash source tree in its 
> "extensions" subdirectory, the package fails to compile because the 
> -D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1 gets dropped.  That is because the top-level Makefile
> issues the make command with TARGET_CFLAGS defined on the command line, 
> which overrides the "(shell arch)" TARGET_CFLAGS setting in gcore.mk:
>   
>   (cd extensions; make -i TARGET=ARM64 TARGET_CFLAGS="" GDB=gdb-7.6 GDB_FLAGS=-DGDB_7_6)
> 
> In order to build both standalone and from within the crash source tree,
> I've modified the gcore.mk file to use a new "ARCH_CFLAGS" definition,
> and added $(ARCH_CFLAGS) to both compile lines below it:
> 
>   ifeq ($(shell arch), aarch64)
>     TARGET=ARM64
>     ARCH_CFLAGS=-D_SYS_UCONTEXT_H=1
>     ARCH=SUPPORTED
>   endif
> 
> Note that if the ARM64 gcore.so is compiled from an x86_64 host that
> was built with "make target=ARM64", the "(shell arch), aarch64" section
> is not used (and not necessary).
> 

I confirmed that after applying this patch, both make and make
target=ARM64 work fine.

If there's no other large issue, I'll release v1.3.0, not -rc3, this
weekend including this change.

--
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke