Error "collect2: error: ld returned 213 exit status" when build Dovecot 2.3.13 on CentOS 7&8 with Valgrind

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 22/01/2021 12:04 Duc Anh Do <doducanh2710 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm building Dovecot from source of Dovecot 2.3.13. When doing make check, I saw an error:
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> for bin in test-iostream-ssl; do \
>  if ! /bin/sh ../../run-test.sh ../.. ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> done
> collect2: error: ld returned 213 exit status
> Failed to run: ./test-iostream-ssl
> 
> This is my configuration in spec file:
> %configure \
>  INSTALL_DATA="install -c -p -m644" \
>  --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name} \
>  --disable-static \
>  --disable-rpath \
>  --with-nss \
>  --with-shadow \
>  --with-pam \
>  --with-gssapi=plugin \
>  --with-ldap=plugin \
>  --with-sql=plugin \
>  --with-pgsql \
>  --with-mysql \
>  --with-sqlite \
>  --with-zlib \
>  --with-libcap \
>  --with-ssl=openssl \
>  --with-ssldir=%{ssldir} \
>  --with-docs
> 
> I installed OpenSSL and Valgrind:
> # yum list installed | egrep "valgrind|openssl"
> openssl-devel.x86_64 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3 @BaseOS
> openssl-libs.x86_64 1:1.1.1g-12.el8_3 @BaseOS
> valgrind.x86_64 1:3.16.0-2.el8 @AppStream
> valgrind-devel.x86_64 1:3.16.0-2.el8 @AppStream
> 
> I investigated the problem and found something:
>   * Unlike other lib-xxx, libtool doesn't generate executable binary test-iostream-ssl inside lib-ssl-iostream directory. That's a shell script and actual executable binary is inside ./libs directory (https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Linking-executables):
> $ pwd
> /home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream
> $ file test-iostream-ssl
> test-iostream-ssl: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable, with very long lines
> $ file .libs/test-iostream-ssl
> .libs/test-iostream-ssl: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=c6a800c253c38a7eb78886286ef779d871550a6c, with debug_info, not stripped, too many notes (256)
> 
> That means when running make check, Valgrind will monitor the shell script generated by libtool instead of the actual test code. And error occurs.
>   * To confirm, I changed Makefile a bit:
> $ pwd
> /home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream
> $ vim Makefile
> check-local:
> for bin in $(test_programs); do \
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./.libs; \
> if ! $(RUN_TEST) ./.libs/$$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> done
> 
> Then do make check:
> $ cd ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13
> $ make -C src/lib-ssl-iostream/ clean
> $ make -C src/lib-ssl-iostream/ check
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> for bin in test-iostream-ssl; do \
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./.libs; \
> if ! /bin/sh -x ../../run-test.sh ../.. ./.libs/$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> #if ! /bin/sh -x ../../run-test.sh ../.. ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> done
> ssl: handshake ....................................................... : ok
> ssl: o_stream_get_buffer_avail_size .................................. : ok
> ssl: small packets ................................................... : ok
> 0 / 3 tests failed
> + ret=0
> + test -s test.out~19257
> + test 0 '!=' 0
> + exit 0
> + rm -f test.out~19257
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> make: Leaving directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
>   * According to the manual of libtool, if I use libtool to generate library and executable binary, I should use libtool to execute (or debug or anything else). That will avoid misconfiguration and unexpected errors:
>     * https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Debugging-executables.html#Debugging-executables
>     * https://stackoverflow.com/a/14186488
> My patch looks like this:
> diff --git a/src/lib-ssl-iostream/Makefile.am b/src/lib-ssl-iostream/Makefile.am
> index 5aaea5d..17ebf1d 100644
> --- a/src/lib-ssl-iostream/Makefile.am
> +++ b/src/lib-ssl-iostream/Makefile.am
> @@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = $(test_programs)
> 
> check-local:
> for bin in $(test_programs); do \
> - if ! $(RUN_TEST) ./$$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> + if ! $(LIBTOOL) --mode execute $(RUN_TEST) ./$$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> done
> endif
> 
> Result:
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> make check-local
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> for bin in test-iostream-ssl; do \
>  if ! /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode execute /bin/sh ../../run-test.sh ../.. ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \
> done
> ssl: handshake ....................................................... : ok
> ssl: o_stream_get_buffer_avail_size .................................. : ok
> ssl: small packets ................................................... : ok
> 0 / 3 tests failed
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/xxx/rpmbuild/BUILD/xxx/dovecot-2.3.13/src/lib-ssl-iostream'
> 
> Can anyone help to correct my understanding and my patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anh Do
>

I think better fix is to change run-test.sh to use libtool instead. I'll submit patch.

Aki