From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Failure in test-suite/standalone/test-ffi test Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:22:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83a974efgx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2c0ei0f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408195411 17420 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2014 13:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:23:31 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 16 15:23:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdx6-0000U7-2N for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:23:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdx5-0005mS-Lb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdwy-0005mD-42 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:23:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdws-0004vm-7b for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:23:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:50660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdwr-0004vh-VP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NAE00900I9SEY00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:23:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NAE00A8JIIH1M00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:23:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <83d2c0ei0f.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17349 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 15:28:00 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-func: > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-pointer: Symbol not found: strerror > FAIL: test-ffi > > Does this test make some unportable assumptions about the 'strerror' > symbol? Or should I debug this? Answering myself here: according to libltdl documentation, the call to lt_dlopen with the argument FILENAME being NULL will only work if the program was linked with the -export-dynamic option to the linker. So yes, this test does make some non-portable assumptions.