link-order.at problem on Cygwin

[Peter Ekberg]

Hi!

The recent change to bug out when the exit code is non-zero [1]
uncovered a silent failure on Cygwin (an MinGW I suppose) in
the link-order.at test.

The problem is as follows:

1. liba is built with an a_old symbol.
2. liba is installed in old/lib (dll installed in old/bin).
3. A new liba is built with an a_new symbol.
4. liba is installed in new/lib (dll installed in new/bin).
5. main_old is linked against old/lib/liba
6. main_old is executed, but finds the new liba dll.
7. crash and burn

The reason it finds the new liba dll is that it is left behind
in the src/.libs dir along with the freshly built main_old.exe.
main_old.exe of course finds this dll as it is in the same dir
as the exe itself.

Is the intension of the test to spot this problem, or can I
write a patch that builds the liba dlls somewhere else so that
the last built liba isn't in the same dir as the test exes?

Cheers,
Peter

[1]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-09/msg00098.html

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