Re: Multiple test failures with --disable-shared

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:10:48AM CEST:
> [working through my email backlog after being mostly offline for the
>  last week or more. Apologies if this is too late to be relevant.]

No problem, but yes.  ;-P

> On 13 Jun 2010, at 12:07, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:07:44AM CEST:
> >> On 06/11/2010 11:56 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >>> 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.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Agreed. And please add a note to TODO so that we can find this thread
> again if one of us decides to work on it in future.

This has been fixed since.

Cheers,
Ralf