Re: coreutils-8.31.90-cc4c.tar.xz and LD_PRELOAD

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/03/2020 02:05, Bruno Haible wrote:
> On FreeBSD 12.0, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 6.5, "make check" reports a couple
> of skipped tests:
>
> no-ctx.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> r-root.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> rm-readdir-fail.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> csplit-io-err.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> nfs-removal-race.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> no-mtab-status.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> skip-duplicates.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
> getxattr-speedup.sh: skipped test: $CC -shared ... failed to build a shared lib
>
> The prereq check tests not only whether a shared library can be built, but
> also whether linking it with -ldl works.
>
> However, on the following platforms, the dlopen() etc. functions exist in libc,
> and a libdl does not exist:
>    macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, OSF/1, Cygwin, Haiku.
>
> The attached patch removes the requirement of a libdl. It enables 4 more tests
> to be executed on FreeBSD, and produces no additional test failures on
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.

Pushed.

thanks!
Pádraig