testsuite, failures galore

[Daniel Fischer]

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:04:28, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 31/05/2011 14:53, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> > Well, compiling and running a simple test programme that calls
> > bfd_init() works here without linking in libz, so I guess that test
> > wouldn't detect the dependency even if it actually runs the
> > executable.
> 
> That's very mysterious.  Perhaps bfd_init doesn't pull in anything that
> has the libz dependency,

That's what I think.

> and you have to call some other function in the
> bfd library instead.  Here's a fragment of code in the RTS that calls
> bfd functions:
> 
>      bfd_init();
>      abfd = bfd_openr(name, "default");
>      if (abfd == NULL) {
> 	barf("can't open executable %s to get symbol table", name);
>      }
>      if (!bfd_check_format_matches (abfd, bfd_object, &matching)) {
> 	barf("mismatch");
>      }

calling bfd_openr alone produces tons of undefined references, I've no idea 
what libraries I'd have to link with also :(

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon