From: Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: libnfs 7.0.0
To: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org, "Kirill A. Korinsky" <kirill@korins.ky>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:48:25 +0000

On Aug 19, 2026, at 7:11 PM, Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:11:04 +0200,
> Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 8, 2026, at 9:47 PM, Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here is an update to libnfs 7.0.0.
>>> 
>>> All depends build Ok.
>>> 
>> 
>> Working on fio update on sparc64 and I noticed the libnfs.so <http://libnfs.so/> symbol
>> _null_auth conflicts with _null_auth in libc.so <http://libc.so/>:
>> 
>> fio:/usr/lib/libc.so.103.0: /usr/local/lib/libnfs.so.3.0 : WARNING: symbol(_null_auth) size mismatch, relink your program
>> 
>> oracle$ objdump -x /usr/lib/libc.so.103.0 | grep _null_auth                                        
>> 00000000003f61e0 g     O .bss 0000000000000018 _null_auth
>> oracle$ objdump -x /usr/local/lib/libnfs.so.3.0 | grep _null_auth
>> 0000000000368070 g     O .bss 0000000000000020 _null_auth
>> 
>> I’m not sure what the fix for this should be.
>> 
>> -Kurt
>> 
> 
> FWIW I saw almost the same error in qemu at amd64 hosts, but I haven't dig
> into it.

Thanks for confirming.

Brad, when you look into _null_auth can you double check pkg_config 
for libnfs as well please? I’m seeing this:

m2$ pkg-config --modversion libnfs                                        
17.0.0

Should that be reporting 7.0.0?

-Kurt