[erlang-questions] Erlang crypto_drv in R13B02/03 fails to load on amd64-Solaris2.10

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

Hi Pete,

Could you send us the build log please so we can investigate this 
problem. We are specifically interested in the log entries regarding 
building crypto_drv.so.

Regards,
Björn-Egil
Erlang/OTP

Peter-Henry Mander wrote:
> Hi Gentlepeople,
> 
> Does anyone else use the Erlang crypto application on Solaris 10, U8?
> We try to compile Erlang to run as a amd64 binary to access the 64Gb
> RAM on our servers. I know that crypto will load on Linux amd64, so
> the driver is capable of doing what's written on the tin.
> 
> The symptom are appended below. R12B-5 can load the crypto_drv, but
> R13B0{2,3} cannot.
> 
> I'm confident that the openssl-0.9.8i library is fine, we use stunnel
> linked to this and it works.
> 
> We tried GCC-3.4.3 as supplied by Sun, and tried with GCC-4.4.2,
> compiling with the option -mcmodel=medium to see if adjusting the
> memory model would help, to no avail. This was prompted by indications
> that the relocation error was due to AMD ABI, address register
> relative memory access was spanning ranges beyond 2Gb in size, and
> would not fit in the 32bit offset.
> 
> Help please? Yes, it works on Linux, no I can't consider deploying
> that option just yet. If compiling Erlang R13B as a 32bit runtime
> still enables access to the full 64Gb of memory, I may consider this
> option (I haven't tried yet).
> 
> Pete.
> 
>> ~/R12B-5/bin/erl
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [source] [64-bit] [smp:8]
> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
> 
> Eshell V5.6.5  (abort with ^G)
> 1> application:start(crypto).
> ok
> 
> 
>> ~/R13B02/bin/erl
> Erlang R13B02 (erts-5.7.3) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [rq:8]
> [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]
> 
> Eshell V5.7.3  (abort with ^G)
> 1> PrivDir = code:priv_dir(crypto).
> "/Software/R13B02/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.1/priv"
> 2> LibDir1 = filename:join([PrivDir, "lib"]).
> "/Software/R13B02/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.1/priv/lib"
> 3> erl_ddll:load_driver(LibDir1, crypto_drv).
> {error,{open_error,-10}}
> 4> erl_ddll:format_error({open_error,-10}).
> "ld.so.1: beam.smp: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_PC32: file
> /Software/R13B02/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.1/priv/lib/crypto_drv.so:
> symbol main: value 0x28002cb378c does not fit"
> 
> 
>> ~/R13B03-2009-11-19/bin/erl
> Erlang R13B03 (erts-5.7.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [rq:8]
> [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]
> 
> Eshell V5.7.4  (abort with ^G)
> 1> application:start(crypto).
> 
> =ERROR REPORT==== 20-Nov-2009::15:24:25 ===
> Unable to load crypto_drv. Failed with error:
> "ld.so.1: beam.smp: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32: file
> /Software/R13B03-2009-11-19/lib/erlang/lib/crypto-1.6.3/priv/lib/crypto_drv.so:
> symbol (unknown): value 0xfffffd7ffd514fdf does not fit"
> OpenSSL might not be installed on this system.
> {error,{shutdown,{crypto_app,start,[normal,[]]}}}
> 
> =INFO REPORT==== 20-Nov-2009::15:24:25 ===
>     application: crypto
>     exited: {shutdown,{crypto_app,start,[normal,[]]}}
>     type: temporary
> 
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