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RE: link-order.at problem on Cygwin


From: Peter Ekberg
Subject: RE: link-order.at problem on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:33:23 +0200

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 16:20 CEST:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> * Peter Ekberg wrote on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:25:01PM CEST:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> If in doubt: the test should make sure the original bug is fixed:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-04/msg0
> 0032.html
> 
> So this reveals that we are testing something slightly different:
> we install both liba versions before linking against them.  What we
> should be doing according to the bug report: link and install the old
> version, then `$LIBTOOL --mode=clean' the old library, link the new
> library, link the program, execute the uninstalled, install both,
> execute again.

It's not as bad as it seems. Normal operation would be:

...
6. main_old is executed and terminates with 0 exit code
7. main_new is linked against new/lib/liba
8. main_new is executed and terminates with 0 exit code

So the test links with old liba after new liba is installed, that
is in addition to what you specify. But it doesn't test with
the uninstalled new liba or the installed main_new.

> Then we should make sure that, if we undo the patch from Alexandre
> that was installed, the test fails.  Actually, come to think of it,
> we should make sure it fails even without the EGREP test.
> 
> If you haven't fixed this already,  :-)
> I can probably look into it sometime.

I think this patch is less intrusive and more obvious to not
disrupt the test.

        * tests/link-order.test: Clean up the uninstalled libraries
        before linking the test executables so that they don't pick
        up the dlls from the current dir on Cygwin and MinGW.

Cheers,
Peter

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