tests/stacktrace_test.cc fails

[nelhage]

tests/stacktrace_test.cc fails

[reltuk]

Hi @qzmfranklin,

Sorry you're having some issues here. You can find information about different configurations for boost stacktrace and their dependencies here: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/doc/html/stacktrace/configuration_and_build.html

On linux-x86_64, this repo's BUILD.boost is compiling the library in a non-header-only mode and is compiling with libs/stacktrace/src/backtrace.cpp. That's where the requirement for backtrace.h is coming from, since that file defines #define BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_BACKTRACE.

backtrace.h itself is expected to come from libbacktrace itself, which is typically part of the compiler I think. I think you're probably running into footnote number (4) on the boost instructions above: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/doc/html/stacktrace/configuration_and_build.html#stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f3.

Let me see if I can reproduce and investigate any possible solutions...

Is a working boost stacktrace relevant to your use of rules_boost in this project, or is this more of an inquiry into the broken test suite under some situations?

[reltuk]

I can confirm that CC=clang CXX=clang++ bazel test :stacktrace_test on Ubuntu 18.04.3 fails with the same error.

[qzmfranklin]

Wow, thanks for the nicely formatted and informative reply.

Re

Is a working boost stacktrace relevant to your use of rules_boost in this project, or is this more of an inquiry into the broken test suite under some situations?

The latter (a broken test suite). The motivating situation for me was to introduce boost into our build system for building a few other libraries that depend on boost.

We do not actively use boost directly yet. But I view supporting building boost from source as an important milestone for our team as lots of high impact libraries depend on it.

I appreciate your help here.

[QuantamHD]

Was there any solution to this problem?

[wijagels]

Not every OS provides the required library by default. See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66570

Should be fixable by installing the package on your system.

Or if rules_boost included https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace

[QuantamHD]

I'm building libbacktrace in bazel at the moment. I'd be happy to send a PR to this repo

[QuantamHD]

I managed to get this to work with a hermetic cc toolchain in this commit by building libbstacktrace hermetically.

hdl/bazel_rules_hdl@196706d

[baryluk]

I am having same issue. I am trying to use boost::stacktrace , but compilation failes due to missing backtrace.h include. I am using hermetic builds, and I would like to use addr2line instead as a stacktrace backend.

Maybe `:stacktrace_addr2line" , so I can use that insead of backtrace.cpp (which is default on Linux). I only use the stacktrace at top level of main when exiting abnormally, so performance is not horribly important. Also I am trying to make static executable so less library depdendencies the better.