"go test ./..." fails when llvm-symbolizer is not available (even if llvm-symbolizer-14 is there)
#891 added support for populating function start lines using llvm-symbolizer data. One caveat is that if llvm-symbolizer is not available, the default go test ./... run fails with the error below. In fact, even if llvm-symbolizer is available in its versioned form, such as llvm-symbolizer-14, the test run still fails with the same error.
The workaround right now is to install llvm-symbolizer and then run a command like sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/llvm-symbolizer llvm-symbolizer /usr/bin/llvm-symbolizer-14 100. This command makes the symbolizer available as llvm-symbolizer, which enables pprof to locate it.
Maybe we should make the test skipped if llvm-symbolizer is not available, but also have an option (a flag or environment variable) to disable that skippage so that we set that option in our CI to ensure we forcefully test the start function numbers.
$ go test ./...
? github.com/google/pprof [no test files]
? github.com/google/pprof/driver [no test files]
ok github.com/google/pprof/fuzz 0.034s
? github.com/google/pprof/internal/plugin [no test files]
? github.com/google/pprof/internal/proftest [no test files]
? github.com/google/pprof/internal/transport [no test files]
? github.com/google/pprof/third_party/svgpan [no test files]
--- FAIL: TestObjFile (1.77s)
--- FAIL: TestObjFile/fixed_load_address (1.65s)
binutils_test.go:379: SourceLine for main: got [{main /tmp/hello.c 3 0 0}]; want [{main /tmp/hello.c 3 0 3}]
--- FAIL: TestObjFile/simulated_ASLR_address (0.12s)
binutils_test.go:379: SourceLine for main: got [{main /tmp/hello.c 3 0 0}]; want [{main /tmp/hello.c 3 0 3}]
FAIL
FAIL github.com/google/pprof/internal/binutils 1.867s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/driver 1.728s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/elfexec 0.092s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/graph 0.125s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/measurement 0.125s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/report 0.921s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/symbolizer 0.097s
ok github.com/google/pprof/internal/symbolz 0.071s
ok github.com/google/pprof/profile 0.114s
FAILSource: google/pprof