libltdl/ltdl.c call to access() failure

[Robert Boehne]

Hello,

Per the discussion on the libtool mailing list:
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2002-September/006692.html
Here is a patch to temporarily work around the problem.
This change causes three test failures to pass on
several UNIX platforms.
I'd like to remove this call for the time being, and we'll put it back
when the problem is resolved.

Ok to commit?

2002-09-17  Robert Boehne  <address@hidden>

        * libltdl/ltdl.c: Commented out access() call that checks for a
        library file's existence and permissions, as it appears to fail
        in every case.

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Index: libltdl/ltdl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.169
diff -u -r1.169 ltdl.c
--- libltdl/ltdl.c      28 Aug 2002 20:40:28 -0000      1.169
+++ libltdl/ltdl.c      17 Sep 2002 16:58:31 -0000
@@ -2033,14 +2033,17 @@
   cur = *handle;
   if (filename)
     {
+      /* Comment out the check of file permissions using access.
+        This call seems to always return -1 with error EACCES.
+      */
       /* We need to catch missing file errors early so that
-        file_not_found() can detect what happened. */
+        file_not_found() can detect what happened.
       if (access (filename, R_OK) != 0)
        {
          LT_DLMUTEX_SETERROR (LT_DLSTRERROR (FILE_NOT_FOUND));
          ++errors;
          goto done;
-       }
+       } */
 
       cur->info.filename = lt_estrdup (filename);
       if (!cur->info.filename)