error: unsupported linker arg: --undefined

[NobodyXu]

In CI of cargo-bins/cargo-quickinstall#225 :

error: linking with `/home/runner/.cache/cargo-zigbuild/0.17.1/zigcc-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.sh` failed: exit status: 1
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  = note: LC_ALL="C" PATH="/home/runner/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/usr/lib/llvm-17/bin:/home/runner/.local/bin:/opt/pipx_bin:/home/runner/.cargo/bin:/home/runner/.config/composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/.ghcup/bin:/home/runner/.dotnet/tools:/snap/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin" VSLANG="1033" "/home/runner/.cache/cargo-zigbuild/0.17.1/zigcc-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.sh" "/tmp/rustcyQOQeV/symbols.o" "/tmp/cargo-installYEv6Xb/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/cargo_quickinstall-f5fa84c441e696c6.cargo_quickinstall.b0e05ecc437846b8-cgu.0.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-L" "/tmp/cargo-installYEv6Xb/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps" "-L" "/tmp/cargo-installYEv6Xb/release/deps" "-L" "/home/runner/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/home/runner/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-c1be0fe9bd14e073.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lgcc_s" "-lutil" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lm" "-ldl" "-lc" "-Wl,--eh-frame-hdr" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-L" "/home/runner/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-o" "/tmp/cargo-installYEv6Xb/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/cargo_quickinstall-f5fa84c441e696c6" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now" "-Wl,-O1" "-nodefaultlibs" "/tmp/cargo-installYEv6Xb/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/deps/cargo_quickinstall_audit_data.o" "-Wl,--undefined=AUDITABLE_VERSION_INFO"
  = note: error: unsupported linker arg: --undefined

It runs the command:

export CARGO_ROOT=/tmp/tmp.NcnCOgGQVC
export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_CODEGEN_UNITS=1
export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=fat
export OPENSSL_STATIC=1
export CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL=sparse

cargo-auditable auditable install cargo-quickinstall --version 0.2.9 --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --root /tmp/tmp.NcnCOgGQVC

[messense]

See ziglang/zig#11906, consider open a PR to filter it out like #97.

[messense]

So the flag is added by cargo-auditable, simply remove it might have other unintended effects?

https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-auditable/blob/da85607fb1a09435d77288ccf05a92b2e8ec3f71/cargo-auditable/src/rustc_wrapper.rs#L56

[NobodyXu]

Hmmm, it seems like so.

Not sure how this to approach this problem, cc @Shnatsel

[Shnatsel]

The flag is needed to make sure the audit info is not removed by the linker. Without --undefined the linker would notice that the symbol is never used and remove it.

It does seem like an instance of ziglang/zig#11906. The flag should be simply forwarded to the linker as-is.

[NobodyXu]

Is there any workaround? cc @Shnatsel @messense

We want to update ziglang v0.11 cargo-bins/cargo-binstall#1564 but failed.

[Shnatsel]

I believe this is an issue with Zig, and it needs to be modified to recognize this flag and pass it along to the linker. Other similar PRs dealing with linker flags:

ziglang/zig#11679
ziglang/zig#11875
ziglang/zig#11874

I am not aware of any workarounds.

[NobodyXu]

I will probably have to stay on ziglang v0.10 and instead zlib-ng on aarch64 to fix the error mentioned in #210