testsuite, failures galore

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/06/2011 02:55, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:04:28, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> That's very mysterious.  Perhaps bfd_init doesn't pull in anything that
>> has the libz dependency, and you have to call some other function in
>> the  bfd library instead.
>
> Not having a better idea, I replaced bfd_init in the AC_CHECK_LIB with
> bfd_uncompress_section_contents, because that one definitely pulls in the
> libz dependency.
> And it worked for me™.
>
> Without libbfd-version.so symlinked to libbfd.so, the test failed to link,
> hence there was no
> #define HAVE_LIBBFD 1
> written to confdefs.h, no link failures due to the libz dependency in the
> testsuite.
>
> With the symlink, the test linked,
> #define HAVE_LIBBFD 1
> was written to confdefs.h, no link failures due to the libz dependency in
> the testsuite.
>
> Unless there's a reason that change would break things elsewhere, it'd be a
> simple fix.

Great, will do.

Cheers,
	Simon