On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > > On Jun 8, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On a new clone on master, make-check fails on its first run (before being > > installed) but succeeds after the application has been installed in its > > install directory. This is because the guile symbol > > 'qof_backend_register_provider' is being looked for in three instances in > > the install directory instead of in the build directory. The following is > > reported in src/engine/test/test-suite.log: > > > > FAIL: test-test-extras > > ====================== > > > > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-working-build/gnc-guile: symbol > > lookup error: > > /opt/gnucash-git/gnucash-working/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-backend-dbi.so: > > undefined symbol: qof_backend_register_provider > > FAIL test-test-extras (exit status: 127) > > > > FAIL: test-account > > ================== > > > > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-working-build/gnc-guile: symbol > > lookup error: > > /opt/gnucash-git/gnucash-working/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-backend-dbi.so: > > undefined symbol: qof_backend_register_provider > > FAIL test-account (exit status: 127) > > > > FAIL: test-split > > ================ > > > > /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-working-build/gnc-guile: symbol > > lookup error: > > /opt/gnucash-git/gnucash-working/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-backend-dbi.so: > > undefined symbol: qof_backend_register_provider > > FAIL test-split (exit status: 127) > > Alex, > > That sort of failure is often caused by having a mismatch between the > installed version and the tested version of GnuCash, > for example by installing maint and then attempting to build and check > master. The dynamic linker will generally link > libraries first from the install directory and look in the build directory > only if it can't find the image in the install directory. > > To test if that's what's happening to you, run `make uninstall && make > check` and see if it passes. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > John, That is exactly what happened in this case. Thanks for the explanation. Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
