Re: make check error on -HEAD

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make check error on -HEAD
Date: 2004-11-01 01:27:04
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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 07:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> I looked at this a bit more and found that on Linux, the dynamic
> loader is documented to search "rpath" before LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
> so had we not specified an rpath when building the psql executable,
> pg_regress would have worked as intended. Sounds like BSD is the same.

Seems Solaris does it the other way:

http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200001/msg00328.html

although Drepper says in the thread that searching rpath before
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is per standard.

> Now, not specifying rpath seems like a sure loss for every context
> except "make check" with an uninstalled version. So I'm afraid we have
> to live with it.

This is a kludge, but could we specify LD_PRELOAD?

-Neil

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