lightningd: add runtime checking for all system-provided libs.

And I tested this by rolling my own libz; make indeed detects
the change and fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Makefile

@@ -342,8 +342,11 @@ tools/headerversions: FORCE tools/headerversions.o $(CCAN_OBJS)
 gen_header_versions.h: tools/headerversions
 	@tools/headerversions $@
 
-# All binaries require the external libs, ccan and external library versions.
+# Rebuild the world if this changes.
-$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(ALL_TEST_PROGRAMS): $(EXTERNAL_LIBS) $(CCAN_OBJS) gen_header_versions.h
+ALL_GEN_HEADERS += gen_header_versions.h
+
+# All binaries require the external libs, ccan and system library versions.
+$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(ALL_TEST_PROGRAMS): $(EXTERNAL_LIBS) $(CCAN_OBJS)
 
 # Each test program depends on its own object.
 $(ALL_TEST_PROGRAMS): %: %.o

lightningd/lightningd.c

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
+#include <gen_header_versions.h>
 #include <lightningd/bitcoind.h>
 #include <lightningd/chaintopology.h>
 #include <lightningd/channel_control.h>
@@ -581,6 +582,17 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	/*~ What happens in strange locales should stay there. */
 	setup_locale();
+
+	/*~ This checks that the system-installed libraries (usually
+	 * dynamically linked) actually are compatible with the ones we
+	 * compiled with.
+	 *
+	 * The header itself is auto-generated every time the version of the
+	 * installed libraries changes, as we had an sqlite3 version update
+	 * which broke people, and "make" didn't think there was any work to
+	 * do, so rebuilding didn't fix it. */
+	check_linked_library_versions();
+
 	/*~ Every daemon calls this in some form: the hooks are for dumping
 	 * backtraces when we crash (if supported on this platform). */
 	daemon_setup(argv[0], log_backtrace_print, log_backtrace_exit);

tools/headerversions.c

@@ -12,10 +12,42 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <zlib.h>
 
+static const char template[] =
+	"/* Generated file by tools/headerversions, do not edit! */\n"
+	"/* GMP version: %s */\n"
+	"/* SQLITE3 version: %u */\n"
+	"/* ZLIB version: %s */\n"
+	"#include <ccan/err/err.h>\n"
+	"#include <gmp.h>\n"
+	"#include <sqlite3.h>\n"
+	"#include <zlib.h>\n"
+	"\n"
+	"static inline void check_linked_library_versions(void)\n"
+	"{\n"
+	"	char compiled_gmp_version[100];\n"
+	"	if (SQLITE_VERSION_NUMBER != sqlite3_libversion_number())\n"
+	"		errx(1, \"SQLITE version mismatch: compiled %%u, now %%u\",\n"
+	"		     SQLITE_VERSION_NUMBER, sqlite3_libversion_number());\n"
+	"	/* zlib documents that first char alters ABI. Kudos! */\n"
+	"	if (zlibVersion()[0] != ZLIB_VERSION[0])\n"
+	"		errx(1, \"zlib version mismatch: compiled %%s, now %%s\",\n"
+	"		     ZLIB_VERSION, zlibVersion());\n"
+	"	/* GMP doesn't say anything, and we have to assemble our own string. */\n"
+	"	snprintf(compiled_gmp_version,  sizeof(compiled_gmp_version),\n"
+	"		 \"%%u.%%u.%%u\",\n"
+	"		 __GNU_MP_VERSION,\n"
+	"		 __GNU_MP_VERSION_MINOR,\n"
+	"		 __GNU_MP_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL);\n"
+	"	if (strcmp(compiled_gmp_version, gmp_version) != 0)\n"
+	"		errx(1, \"gmp version mismatch: compiled %%s, now %%s\",\n"
+	"		     compiled_gmp_version, gmp_version);\n"
+	"}\n";
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	char *file, *new;
 
+	/* We don't bother with setup_locale(); we're a build tool */
 	err_set_progname(argv[0]);
 
 	if (argc != 2)
@@ -25,11 +57,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (!file && errno != ENOENT)
 		err(1, "Reading %s", argv[1]);
 
-	new = tal_fmt(NULL,
+	new = tal_fmt(NULL, template,
-		      "/* Generated file by tools/headerversions, do not edit! */\n"
-		      "/* GMP version: %s */\n"
-		      "/* SQLITE3 version: %u */\n"
-		      "/* ZLIB version: %s */\n",
 		      gmp_version,
 		      sqlite3_libversion_number(),
 		      zlibVersion());

wallet/db.c

@@ -546,10 +546,6 @@ static struct db *db_open(const tal_t *ctx, char *filename)
 	struct db *db;
 	sqlite3 *sql;
 
-	if (SQLITE_VERSION_NUMBER != sqlite3_libversion_number())
-		db_fatal("SQLITE version mismatch: compiled %u, now %u",
-			 SQLITE_VERSION_NUMBER, sqlite3_libversion_number());
-
 	int flags = SQLITE_OPEN_READWRITE | SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE;
 	err = sqlite3_open_v2(filename, &sql, flags, NULL);