Compile fails on 32-bit ARM architecture

[gregoryleblanc]

grafana support sent me an email telling me that my v4 instance will be upgraded to v5, so I am trying to build a new version of carbon-relay-ng (first installed/updated around a year ago).

I can't get carbon-relay-ng to build on a 32-bit raspbian OS. I'm getting the following output at build time:

$ make
cd ui/web && go-bindata -pkg web admin_http_assets/...
find . -name '*.go' | grep -v '^\.\/vendor' | xargs gofmt -w -s
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-X main.Version=1.2-1-g375f430" ./cmd/carbon-relay-ng
# github.com/grafana/metrictank/util
../../../../pkg/mod/github.com/grafana/[email protected]/util/flag_parsers.go:32:27: math.MaxUint32 (untyped int constant 4294967295) overflows int
make: *** [Makefile:7: build] Error 2
$

My go version is:
$ go version go version go1.18.1 linux/arm

uname information:
$ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 5.10.52-v7+ #1441 SMP Tue Aug 3 18:10:09 BST 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

I also tried building metrictank pulled from git, but it returns the same error. I don't think that line in metrictank has been changed in years, so maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.

[stefan-walluhn]

Since the underlying project is archived, I don't expect to see any fix for this issue. So this is for anyone stumbling across this: The bug resides within these lines of code: https://github.com/grafana/metrictank/blob/6d15fe1d382fa6a48a3d3f006a4b25dccb5d1952/util/flag_parsers.go#L28-L34

The value for orgID is parsed into a signed integer by Atoi. While integers on 64bit platforms are large enough to hold uint32, this is not the case on 32bit platforms. The maximum value of uint32 fits into a signed int64, but not into a signed int32.

The fix would be to replace line 28 in flag_parsers.go linked above:

orgID, err := strconv.ParseUint(parts[0], 10, 32)

Patching the file locally may be a workaround to build this project on 32bit RaspberryPi. I was able to compile after patching.

[stefan-walluhn]

...just to see it crashing right after launch. There are tons of atomic 64bit operations within this source code, so I don't think this will ever run on 32bit platforms: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agrafana%2Fcarbon-relay-ng%20atomic&type=code