Build on OBS results in corrupted binary in AppImage

[t-paul]

Looks similar to #29, but happens since maybe 2 or 3 weeks on OBS - logs.

I could not find a way to get builds working again yet.

$ ./OpenSCAD-Nightly-0-Build2280.3.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage 
openscad: openscad: no version information available (required by openscad)
...
openscad: openscad: no version information available (required by openscad)
openscad: relocation error: openscad: symbol  version  not defined in file  with link time reference

[probonopd]

Which version of Qt are you using?

[t-paul]

OBS seems to have libqt5-qtbase-devel-5.6.2-6.1 currently for AppImage builds.

[probonopd]

Just out of curiosity, would this change when using a more recent version of Qt?

[t-paul]

I don't know, I don't have any control over the OBS builds.

Edit: meaning the environment the builds are running in.

[probonopd]

Can we find out whether the patchelf version used by OBS has recently changed? cc @TheAssassin

[TheAssassin]

patchelf --version maybe?

[t-paul]

Right now that gives patchelf 0.8 for the AppImage repo build.

[t-paul]

I've taken down our AppImages again. Stable OBS integration would be awesome to have...

[probonopd]

cc @adrianschroeter

[TheAssassin]

I doubt @adrianschroeter will react to that, as he never reacted to @mentions before.

[probonopd]

@t-paul do you have any chance of making an AppImage outside of OBS (e.g., using Travis CI as described in the linuxdeployqt README), to see whether that works?

@TheAssassin maybe you can point him here via IRC, especially if something appears to be broken on OBS which seems to be fine outside of OBS.

[adrianschroeter]

some times I do;) (sorry, way to much noise in inbox of stuff like this)

you have full control over the build env. Just add KDE:Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.3 as first path element in your AppImage repo (in project meta) to get a newer qt5.

@probonopd this is how you can find out which patchelf is used (from 42.3 here, never updated):

# osc buildinfo science:unstable FreeCAD.appimage AppImage             x86_64 | grep patchelf
  <bdep name="patchelf" version="0.8" release="9.2" arch="x86_64" project="openSUSE:Leap:42.3" repository="standard" />

[t-paul]

Adding KDE:Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.3 switches to Qt5.11 but breaks the build, not yet sure why. Problem is not simply the Qt version though, I have that locally too and that works fine - looks like some issue with the gettext integration.

[probonopd]

Thank @adrianschroeter for checking in from time to time, greatly appreciated! (Only together can we make this fly - there are some intricacies of OBS that I still don't fully understand yet.)

[TheAssassin]

@t-paul it happened I wanted to download the AppImage again, so I looked into this again. Can you try with -no-strip?

Also, please export VERSION=1234 before building the AppImage, that allows our desktop integration code to show a version number.

[t-paul]

Updated appimage.yml with -no-strip.

[t-paul]

That seems to work without even increasing the image size (because it was already stripped by the build?). - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/t-paul/AppImage/OpenSCAD-Nightly-latest-x86_64.AppImage

[t-paul]

Closing, the no-strip option fixes the problem.