Patchelf regression breaks conda-build

[jacobwilliams]

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What happened?

FYI: A change or regression in patchelf has broken conda-build on some systems. See here: NixOS/patchelf#492

I think conda-build just pulls the latest patchelf? Would it be better to pin a specific version?

[travishathaway]

Hi @jacobwilliams,

Thanks for filing this issue. patchelf is currently not pinned to a specific version. It might be reasonable to begin doing this.

Can you please link to any of the build failures you have encountered so we have a little more background information before making this decision?

[jacobwilliams]

The builds are not public, so I can't link to them. But, the build works fine. It's building a shared library to be loaded from Python. When Python loads it, we see an error like this:

OSError: /path/blah.so: ELF load command address/offset not properly aligned

Reverting back to patchelf 0.17.2 fixes it for me.

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[jacobwilliams]

Still a major issue that has not been fixed (conda-build is still pulling the broken patchelf by default).

Auto-closing unfixed "stale" issues is a terrible policy.