Re: hardcode_direct et. al.

[Albert Chin]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 02:26:42AM +0100, Gary V.Vaughan wrote:
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> Libtoolers,
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> I see that we have developed a test failure in demo-hardcode.test on
> linux, which seems to be down to the hardcoded value from libtool.m4
> disagreeing with the probed value from demos-hardcode.test.
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> It seems to me that we should be probing from *libtool.m4*, not 
> guessing and then testing!  It also gives us one less thing to maintain 
> in each libtool port.
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> Does anyone know of a reason why we can't remove demo-hardcode.test 
> altogether and move the probes into libtool.m4?

Well, the correct way to test if the hardcoded path is in a binary is
to use an "objdump"-like tool (chatr on HP-UX 32bit, elfdump on HP-UX
64bit, dump -Hv on AIX, elfdump on Solaris, odump on Tru64 UNIX,
elfdump on IRIX). I don't know how to do this when cross-compiling
though.

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albert chin (address@hidden)