Re: Multiple test failures with --disable-shared

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:18:55AM CEST:
> On 06/13/2010 12:07 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:07:44AM CEST:
[ the resident test ]
> >>I'm not sure what testing that modules cannot be unloaded gets you
> >>when you don't have shared libraries.
> >
> >That may be true, but the failure was during lt_dlopen.  I think it
> >should be possible to preload modules with the resident bit, no?  I
> >mean, they are the prototype of resident modules, their closing is what
> >won't do the right thing for non-residents (and maybe a future
> >improvement of the preopen loader could even emulate that).
> >
> >This failure looks like a genuine ltdl bug to me; why not leave it open
> >for now?

> IIRC this one could also be fixed by using
> LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS, I don't remember for sure, but I recall
> being convinced that these were all testsuite issues.

Well, if that fixes it, then that is fine with me of course.

Thanks!
Ralf