Re: New procps release soon

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On 2024/09/24 15:18:48 -0500, Jim Warner wrote:
> On 9/24/24 7:10 AM, Craig Small (csmall) wrote:
> > I've basically ran vmstat in a loop on a lxc container all day testing
> > for non-zero exit result and it works.
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> > There's something specific about Jim's and Debian CI containers that
> > cause this.
> > blem
> > There's scarce information except it gives no output and non zero exit
> > which is a very odd=C2=A0thing in itself.
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> Hi Craig,
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> I should have provided more information in my earlier reply.
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> When I can (inconsistently) reproduce the vmstat problem, it's following a
> build without --disable-shared and a 'sudo make install'.  So I was runni=
ng
> vmstat from /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib still relied on that darn
> libtool libproc2.la script.

Just sniplet fropm my spec file

 find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" -delete -print

as well as I build and test always in a chroot/kvm

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> I don't pretend to understand the libtool inner workings but these lines =
in
> that script caught my eye:
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>     # Is this an already installed library?
>     installed=3Dyes
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> My distro is using procps-ng v4.0.4 where the maximum meminfo item
> enumerator is valued at 131.  Eight more items have been added since.
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> The vmstat program uses, among others, MEMINFO_SWAP_USED.  In our git repo
> currently, that guy is assigned a value of 135.

Shouldn't that trigger a major number increase of libproc2?

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> So, if vmstat was compiled against the current HEAD but somehow linked
> against the v4.0.4 library, that could explain a failure of his
> procps_meminfo_select() call.
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> Just a thought.
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> Regards,
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> Jim
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Werner

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