make-check fails if not installed

[Alex Aycinena]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 8, 2016, at 3:34 PM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at 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