Re: Multiple test failures with --disable-shared

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 06/11/2010 11:56 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:39, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > On 06/10/2010 03:07 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > > On 06/10/2010 11:10 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I got an off-list report from a user about test failures in 2.2.6b, that
> > > > turned out to be either because he'd configured with --disable-shared or
> > > > libtool had incorrectly guessed that his system did not support shared
> > > > libraries. (lots of lag in the exchange).
> >
> > I am not spectacularly happy with all of these, suggestions welcome.
>
> 2&  4: A-OK :) Please push.

Will do tomorrow, thanks.

> 1: There might be a better way.  I'm thinking...

I'm not sure what testing that modules cannot be unloaded gets you when 
you don't have shared libraries.

> 3: eww!

It's either skip the test entirely or some crap like this, you can't 
load a static archive "RTLD_LOCAL", then load a different static archive 
with the same symbols later "RTLD_GLOBAL", and expect things to work. I 
debated what to do, and decided to do the crap thing, since it's 
possible some parts of the test are useful.

Peter