Re: sysutils/podman - working on netbsd?

[P Gman <patrickgunsolley%gmail.com@localhost>]

If NetBSD requires Position Independent Code, as suggested by some
google searches, you may need to clean and replace with the following
flags (as always, with your discretion):

CFLAGS+=        -fPIC
LDFLAGS+=       -Wl,-z,notext

make GO_FLAGS="-buildmode=pie" replace

Otherwise, calling gdb on the core dump may provide more clues from the trace.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> Are there any special considerations for using sysutils/podman on
> NetBSD/amd64?  I just tried it on netbsd-11 (amd64), even going so far
> as to build a kernel with HZ=1000 (which doesn't seem to matter for
> this), but I keep getting some form of:
>
>
> rambutan:riz  /tank/netbsd/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-cvs/sysutils/podman> podman
> --version
> /usr/pkg/bin/podman: text relocations
> zsh: segmentation fault  podman --version
> rambutan:riz  /tank/netbsd/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-cvs/sysutils/podman>
>
>
> I've tried the binary pkg currently available (which seems to be
> podman-5.0.3nb19), built it on two separate systems just-in-case
> (version 5.0.3nb23 - I had to wait through at least 4 separate builds of
> golang), and they all fail similarly. Since it's likely that it will be
> some time before I have the leisure to dig into this, just wondering if
> anyone has used it recently, or if there's some particular thing or
> other I need to set on my system...  Now that I'm thinking about it -
> this system (and the other one I tried it on) has root-on-zfs.  Might
> that affect things?
>
>
> In case it matters (maybe seems relevant), these are the last lines of
> the source build:
>
>
> ===> Building for podman-5.0.3nb23
> mkdir -p bin
> fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point
> /tank/netbsd/pkgsrc)
> Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
> CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=netbsd GOARCH=amd64 go build \
>       \
>      -ldflags ' -X
> github.com/containers/podman/v5/libpod/define.buildInfo=1789168209 -X
> github.com/containers/podman/v5/libpod/config._installPrefix=/usr/pkg -X
> github.com/containers/podman/v5/libpod/config._etcDir=/etc -X
> github.com/containers/podman/v5/pkg/systemd/quadlet._binDir=/usr/pkg/bin
> -X github.com/containers/common/pkg/config.additionalHelperBinariesDir= ' \
>      -tags "remote exclude_graphdriver_btrfs btrfs_noversion
> exclude_graphdriver_devicemapper containers_image_openpgp" \
>      -o bin/podman-remote ./cmd/podman
> # github.com/containers/podman/v5/cmd/podman
> ld: /tmp/go-link-146038740/go.o: warning: relocation in read-only
> section `.go.func'
> ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a PIE
>
> rambutan:riz  /tank/netbsd/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-cvs/sysutils/podman>
>