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From:   Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 12:09:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: Investigating Cirrus CI FreeBSD failures
To:     Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 20:38, Philippe Blain
<levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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"

Ah, what happened here is that this is picking up the perl package
built on 12.3 (i.e., the earliest supported FreeBSD 12.x) which added
strerror_l.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d3912bec58d0b82509a0973cae02f156986d88fa

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

I expect this could have been addressed also by updating to 12.3.
Cirrus also supports "matrix" so both could be tested.