Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:32:50 +0200
> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
>
>> Great!  Does this fix any other issue?
>> Does it warrant a package upgrade in Guix?
>> 
>
> This alone didn't fix the problem, but as no other possibility was left
> than broken pjproject, I tried to fix it and succeeded.
> It is mandatory to pass "-DNDBUG" flag to turn off assertion.
> https://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/FAQ#Performance
> https://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/FAQ#assert
>
> "Release mode. Don't forget to set the appropriate compiler
> optimization flag, and disable assertion with -DNDEBUG."
>
> This surely fixes the bug the reason of I was chasing for several
> months, where after disconnecting from audio call, the daemon
> "crashed" (asserted).
> It is also possible this fixes some other issues with SIP, I didn't
> test, because I was uninterested.
>
> I'll prepare my messy code for committing once I have more time.
>
> I'm not sure whether I should fetch from git or use a tarball after
> doing all this work. Fetching from git adds more complexity to the
> packages, but it gives me more control over it plus I'm not sure if I
> can trust the tarballs anymore, after two cases where some files/folders
> were missing.
>
> Once I'll send the patches, would be cool if someone tested it.

So, I tried adding -DNDEBUG to the CFLAGS bit of the #:configure-flags,
and the package built. Testing it out seems to work, I think I've
experienced this issue with assertion failures, so hopefully this will
help.

modified   gnu/packages/jami.scm
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
              ;; against pjproject-jami:
              ;;   relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when
              ;;   making a shared object;
-             "CFLAGS=-fPIC"
+             "CFLAGS=-fPIC -DNDEBUG"
              "CXXFLAGS=-fPIC")
        #:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases


Is there more to applying this fix, or will this change alone help? I'm
more than happy to review patches.

Thanks,

Chris