From what I can see the only platform this drops support for is CentOS
7. CentOS 7 reached the end of it's "full update" support at the end of
2020. It does receive maintenance updates until 2024, however I don't
think supporting glibc 2.17 until 2024 is realistic. Note that anyone
wanting to self-compile and target a glibc 2.17 runtime could build with
--disable-threadlocal.
glibc 2.18 was released in August 2013.
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
It is important that binaries request a standard interpreter location
where most distros would place the linker-loader. Otherwise, the user
would be met with a very confusing message:
bash: <path>/<to>/bitcoind: No such file or directory
When really it's the interpreter that's not found.
This is important to make sure that we're not testing tools different
from the one we're building with.
Introduce determine_wellknown_cmd, which encapsulates how we
should handle well-known tools specification (IFS splitting, env
override, etc.).
e8cd3700ee devtools: Integrate ARCH_MIN_GLIBC_VER table into MAX_VERSIONS in symbol-check.py (W. J. van der Laan)
a33381acf5 devtools: Add xkb version to symbol-check (W. J. van der Laan)
19e598bab0 devtools: Fix verneed section parsing in pixie (W. J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
I misunderstood the ELF specification for version symbols (verneed): The `vn_aux` pointer is relative to the main verneed record, not the start of the section.
This caused many symbols to not be versioned properly in the return value of `elf.dyn_symbols`. This was discovered in #21454.
Fix it by correcting the offset computation.
- xkb versions symbols (using the prefix `V`), as this library is used by bitcoin-qt, add it to the valid versions in `symbol-check.py`
This unfortunately brings to light some symbols that have been introduced since and weren't caught (from a gitian compile of master):
```
bitcoin-cli: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-cli: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoind: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoind: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoind: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoin-qt: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol statx from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-qt: symbol renameat2 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol getentropy from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-qt: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoin-wallet: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-wallet: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-wallet: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-wallet: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
test_bitcoin: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
test_bitcoin: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
test_bitcoin: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
```
ACKs for top commit:
hebasto:
ACK e8cd3700ee
Tree-SHA512: 8c15e3478eb642f01a1ddaadef03f80583f088f9fa8e3bf171ce16b0ec05ffb4675ec147d7ffc6a4360637ed47fca517c6ca2bac7bb30d794c03783cfb964b79
The (ancient) versions specified here were deceptive. Entries older than
MAX_VERSIONS['GLIBC'], which is 2.17, are ignored here. So reorganize
the code to avoid confusion for other people reading this code.
Clangs Darwin driver should infer the SDK version used during compilation, and
forward that through to the linker. Add a check that this has been done, and the
expected SDK version is set.
Should help prevent issues like #21771 in future.
We use linker flags (-Wl,--major/minor-subsystem-version) to set the
minimum required version of Windows needed to run our binaries. This
adds a sanity check that the version is being set as expected.
We use a compile flag (-mmacosx-version-min) to set the minimum required
version of macOS needed to run our binaries. This adds a sanity check
that the version is being set as expected.
remove fix_configure_mac.patch
Fixed upstream: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-67286
remove fix_riscv64_arch.patch
Was fixed upstream in 6a39e49a6cdeb28a04a3657bb6a22f848d5dfa9d
remove fix_rcc_determinism.patch
Fixed upstream in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62511
remove freetype_back_compat.patch
By the time we ship a release with Qt 5.12, we'll certainly no-longer be
supporting Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 ships with FreeType 2.6.1,
which is new enough that using the symbol is no-longer an issue.
The renaming of FT_Get_X11_Font_Format() happened in FreeType 2.6
remove xkb-default.patch
This was removed upstream in d5abf545971da717014d316127045fc19edbcd65
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
Instead of the ever-messier text parsing of the output of the readelf
tool (which is clearly meant for human consumption not to be machine
parseable), parse the ELF binaries directly.
Add a small dependency-less ELF parser specific to the checks.
This is slightly more secure, too, because it removes potential
ambiguity due to misparsing and changes in the output format of `elfread`. It
also allows for stricter and more specific ELF format checks in the future.
This removes the build-time dependency for `readelf`.
It passes the test-security-check for me locally, though I haven't
checked on all platforms.
Debian 8 (Jessie) has:
- g++ version 4.9.2
- libc version 2.19
Ubuntu 16.04.4 (Xenial) has:
- g++ version 5.3.1
- libc version 2.23.0
CentOS 7 has:
- g++ version 4.8.5
- libc version 2.17
Taking the minimum of these as our target.
According to the GNU ABI document this corresponds to:
- GCC 4.8.5: GCC_4.8.0
- (glibc) GLIBC_2_17
Co-Authored-By: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
Flagged by flake8 v3.6.0, as W605, plus a few others identified
incidentally, e.g. 59ffecf66cf4d08c4b431e457b083878d66a3fd6.
Note that r"\n" matches to "\n" under re.match/search.
Ubuntu 16.04 "xenial xerus" does not come with Python 2.x by default.
It is possible to install a python-2.7 package, but this has its own
problem: no `python` or `python2` symlink (see #7717).
This fixes the following scripts to work with python 3:
- `make check` (bctest,py, bitcoin-util-test.py)
- `make translate` (extract_strings_qt.py)
- `make symbols-check` (symbol-check.py)
- `make security-check` (security-check.py)
Explicitly call the python commands using $(PYTHON) instead
of relying on the interpreter line at the top of the scripts.
Perform the following ELF security checks:
- PIE: Check for position independent executable (PIE), allowing for address space randomization
- NX: Check that no sections are writable and executable (including the stack)
- RELRO: Check for read-only relocations, binding at startup
- Canary: Check for use of stack canary
Also add a check to symbol-check.py that checks that only the subset of
allowed libraries is imported (to avoid incompatibilities).
Add a script to check that the (Linux) executables produced by gitian
only contain allowed gcc, glibc and libstdc++ version symbols. This
makes sure they are still compatible with the minimum supported Linux
distribution versions.
fanquake