Troubleshooting: Setting up varnish 2.1.2 on OpenSolaris

[Paul Wright]

On 7 July 2010 03:46, Jacques <whshub at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to setup Solaris on OpenSolaris b134.  I'm doing a setup in a
> brand new zone.  I have reviewed the instructions
> on http://www.varnish-cache.org/wiki/Installation#OpenSolaris and am having
> problems.
> With a brand new zone, I've found that in addition to installing the list of
> packages provided, I also need to install: SUNWpcre & SUNWlibm.
> Once installed, I can configure & build correctly with:
> ----
>
> VCC_CC="cc -Kpic -G -m64 -o %o %s" CC=/usr/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-O3
> -L/opt/extra/lib/amd64 \
>   -pthreads -m64 -fomit-frame-pointer" LDFLAGS="-lumem -pthreads"
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/extra
>
> make && make install
>
> ----
> I start by running:
> #  /opt/extra/sbin/varnishd -d -a:80 -b 87.238.47.204:80
>>Compiled VCL program failed to load:
>>  ld.so.1: varnishd: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file
>> ./vcl.ORk8t3RP.so: symbol main: value 0x2800dcfbd44 does not fit
>>VCL compilation failed
> Not unexpected, I run:
> # /opt/extra/sbin/varnishd -d -a:80 -b 87.238.47.204:80 -p cc_command='gcc
> -G -m64 -o %o %s'
>>Compiled VCL program failed to load:
>>  ld.so.1: varnishd: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file
>> ./vcl.ORk8t3RP.so: symbol main: value 0x2800dcdbd44 does not fit
>>VCL compilation failed

Hi Jacques,

We're running r4516 on OpenSolaris snv_111b, I freely admit to
cargo-culting here, my configure command similarly looks like this:

CC=/usr/bin/gcc CFLAGS="-O3 -L/lib/amd64 -pthreads -m64
-fomit-frame-pointer" LDFLAGS="-lumem -pthreads" ./configure
--prefix=/opt

And then to run I pass through this option to varnishd when starting:

-p 'cc_command=/usr/bin/gcc -fpic -shared -m64 -o %o %s'

(I think the -fpic argument is what you're missing.)

That mostly works for us with just gcc installed - I've tried later
varnish revisions but the varnish tools segfault with "Cannot open"
errors and it's not been a priority to investigate the cause.

Hope that helps,

Paul.