@andyf (OmniOS), @toasterson (OI), or perhaps the correct folks: Are you compiling illumos-kvm from the TritonDataCenter (nee Joyent) repo? Or do you have your own downstreams?

If you have your own, and are using very recent illumos, you may be getting bitten by fenix OS-8692

OS-8692: Bump illumos-kvm to gnu99 (Resolved)

↳ smartos.org/bugview/OS-8692

→ GitHub commit a7f088a: OS-8692 Bump illumos-kvm to gnu99 (committed)

(Pardon the lack of linkage in the ticket. We're still in some M&A churn w.r.t. Jira.)

Same question holds for other distros that ship old-school KVM that I missed.

Thanks kebe, we have our own fork and we probably need to pull that in.

Good news is, as it in the ticket's test notes, it's a NOP w.r.t. generated object code.

My favorite kind of changes. (First time I asked for that as a valid test was 30 years ago next summer, the original "broken tailbone project".)

kebe: Thanks for the info. I have relayed the info. We had an issue recently but we pull from joyent/illumos-kvm

You should make that "TritonDataCenter/illumos-kvm" but most of those joyent/ repos redirect to TritonDataCenter automatically.

(Anything illumos-related officially lives on the TritonDataCenter github now, even if a lot of joyent/ repos redirect.)

I've been enjoying the use of diffoscope for comparing compiled outputs on Linux systems when doing build system conversions (autoconf -> meson) for X.Org, haven't tried building it on anything Solarish yet though

it's like wsdiff, but good?

`setup.py build` works, but who knows with the way it drives 3rd party stuff for comparators

yeah, it chokes immediately wanting me to install a bunch of python-y bits

andyf, hadfl: could be fun in omnios?

Superficially easy at least, except for some things to work out with libarchive - paste.omnios.org/?859b01a2ef080ae9#…ueGzV6yBcoDDbiiwGTxB2jDW6xEnctwUmE9

I got the impression that actually using it depends on extra stuff

but I also could have misunderstood

I should have thought have venv for magic etc though, sorry

s/have v/of v/

"LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ooce/lib/amd64 diffoscope" and it at least prints the help message

exciting, if it does elf, sqlite, and text it covers illumos well

despite my obvious bias for elfdump, that's pretty neat

I only had to patch its "strings --all" invocation to use "strings -a"