Investigating Cirrus CI FreeBSD failures

From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2022, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <9cc31276-ab78-fa8a-9fb4-b19266911211@gmail.com>

Hi,

I spent a bit of time investigating the Git Cirrus-CI failures on FreeBSD. It seems something goes wrong with the Perl installation, as most failures are in t9001-send-email.sh, and the error messages are:

ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.32/mach/CORE/libperl.so.5.32: Undefined symbol "strerror_l@FBSD_1.6"

The first instance is in t9001.6. (See for example [1]).

I know next to nothing about Perl or FreeBSD, but simply changing our image to FreeBSD 13.0 makes all failures in t9001 disappear [2]:

diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 0d94d89f6c..d1ea14362f 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ freebsd_12_task:
     DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET: prove
     DEVELOPER: 1
   freebsd_instance:
-    image_family: freebsd-12-2
+    image_family: freebsd-13-0
     memory: 2G
   install_script:
     pkg install -y gettext gmake perl5 vim

Is this something that we should do ? Or should we stick to FreeBSD 12
and try to debug this installation problem ?

Cheers,
Philippe.

[1] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5856927879004160
[2] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4597971764379648