From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: net/dnsdist h3 version doesn't seem to start on i386
To: Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
Cc: ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 14:09:58 +0000

On 2024/03/07 14:58, Renaud Allard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was playing with dnsdist and wanted to install it on an old soekris. I
> updated to the latest OpenBSD snapshot (i386) of today and installed
> dnsdist-1.9.0-h3.
> But it seems it fails to start with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".
> I tried the same config with the non h3 version and it started without
> issue.
> 
> Maybe it couldn't run at all on i386, but then the h3 build should probably
> be removed from the packages build.

Most likely the machine doesn't have SSE2 and boringssl (which is
used by dnsdist's h3 flavour) wouldn't build without -msse2.
I'd expect it to run on newer i386s.

> I can provide the core dump if needed.

A backtrace from the core dump might be useful. The core file itself
not so useful. Also dmesg.