[opam-devel] ocamlc.opt and pthreads

[Mika Illouz]

Dear OPAM-ers,

I have two systems on which opam is installed.  System A runs Ubuntu
11.10 (ancient, I know) and opam 1.0.0, with the 4.00.1 ocaml compiler.

A $ lsb_release -i -c
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Codename:       natty
A $ opam --version
1.0.0

I have a second system, system B, running Ubuntu 13.10 (less ancient)
and opam 1.1.1, with the 3.12.1 and 4.01.0 compilers

B $ lsb_release -i -c
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Codename:       saucy
B $ opam --version
1.1.1

I will try to compile a simple ocaml program into bytecode, on both
systems, and for the heck of it, link against system threads library:
A $ echo "let _ = print_endline \"hi\"" > /tmp/x.ml
A $ /home/mika/.opam/4.00.1/bin/ocamlc -thread
/home/mika/.opam/4.00.1/lib/ocaml/threads/threads.cma /tmp/x.ml -o /tmp/x
A $ /home/mika/.opam/4.00.1/bin/ocamlc.opt -thread
/home/mika/.opam/4.00.1/lib/ocaml/threads/threads.cma /tmp/x.ml -o /tmp/x

No problem so far.

Now on system B:
B $ echo "let _ = print_endline \"hi\"" > /tmp/x.ml
B $ /home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/bin/ocamlc -thread
/home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/lib/ocaml/threads/threads.cma /tmp/x.ml -o /tmp/x
B $ /home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/bin/ocamlc.opt -thread
/home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/lib/ocaml/threads/threads.cma /tmp/x.ml -o /tmp/x
File "/tmp/x.ml", line 1, characters 0-1:
Error: Error on dynamically loaded library:
/home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllthreads.so:
/home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllthreads.so: undefined symbol:
pthread_sigmask

On system B, ocamlc.opt seems to have trouble, whereas ocamlc does
not.  (4.01.0 also has the identical issue).  Trying to figure out
why, I looked at the DLL dependencies of the ocamlc.opt's :

A $ ldd /home/mika/.opam/4.00.1/bin/ocamlc.opt
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffa29ff000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fad8291b000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fad82717000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007fad824d2000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007fad822b4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fad81f1c000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fad82bc7000)

B $ ldd /home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/bin/ocamlc.opt
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff8affe000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f128410c000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1283f08000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1283b3f000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f128441c000)

The critical difference seems to be that system A's ocamlc.opt is linked
against libpthread.so (and libncurses.so, for whatever reason), and
system B's does not.  In fact, compilation succeeds on system B if I
use LD_PRELOAD:

B $ LD_PRELOAD=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
 /home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/bin/ocamlc -thread
/home/mika/.opam/3.12.1/lib/ocaml/threads/threads.cma /tmp/x.ml -o /tmp/x

Incidentally, if I compile ocaml from Inria's tarball, compilation
using ocamlc.opt also fails on system B, unless I configure the the
compilation of the compiler with "./configure -libs -lpthread" .

The ocaml installed through opam on system A seems to do the right
thing.  Does anyone have any idea how I can make system B's compiler
behave similarly?

thanks
mika
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