On make check, undefined symbol error: qof_string_number_compare_func

[Christian Stimming]

Hi all, 

with the current SVN-trunk, r14920, I get on "make check" this:

make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/chs/org/gnucash/trunk/src/network-utils/test'
/home/chs/org/gnucash/trunk/src/network-utils/test/.libs/lt-test-link-module: 
symbol lookup 
error: /home/chs/org/gnucash/trunk/src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so.0: 
undefined symbol: qof_string_number_compare_func
FAIL: test-link-module
  testing network-utils module load ...   ok
PASS: test-load-module
==========================================
1 of 2 tests failed
Please report to gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
==========================================

and similar error messages in many further directories. I *thought* this means 
at check-runtime, the linker cannot find libgncqof.so (which is where 
qof_string_number_compare_func is defined). If this is the cause of the 
error, then we need to add the location of libgncqof.so to the check 
environment. Attached is a patch that would do this for all places where make 
check gave this error.

However, I'm quite confused about whether this is the correct fix, or whether 
something else is wrong. I thought there were many other functions from 
libqof already being referenced, so I thought it should have been found 
before as well. Or maybe before, the linker only found the libgncqof.so which 
happens to be installed in /usr/lib (there is one from branch-2.0)? If that 
were the case, then indeed we need to apply the attached patch so that the 
tests run with the currently built libgncqof.so instead of a potentially 
installed one.

Christian
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