make test: invalid ELF header

[Derek Atkins]

The problem is that config.guess is "broken" on your system and doesn't
think your system can build shared libraries...  So it's building
as static libraries.   Grep the archives for --build= to see how
to correct it.

-derek

Quoting Fred Stevens <2skaters at cannon.net>:

> I get a similar error on SuSE 9.2 when trying to do a make check. 
> This is part of the output:
> ** WARNING **: Failed to dlopen() 
> '../../../src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libagedver.la': 
> ../../../src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/.libs/libagedver.a: invalid 
> ELF header
>
>
> ** WARNING **: Failed to open module gnucash/agedver
>
> ** WARNING **: : could not locate gnucash/agedver interface v.5
>
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> ERROR: file: "libgncmodule", message: 
> "../../../src/gnc-module/.libs/libgncmodule.a: invalid ELF header"
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc-module", message: 
> "../../../src/gnc-module/.libs/libgw-gnc-module.a: invalid ELF header"
> make[6]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
> make[5]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[4]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
>
> I also get a guile crash when accessing a postgresql backend using 
> postgresql 8.1.1 (but not 8.0.5) and gnucash 1.8.11.  Guile crashes 
> with a segmentation fault and the postgres backend issues this error 
> in the log file:
>
> ERROR:  missing FROM-clause entry for table "gnctransaction"
> LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
>
> I haven't checked changes in libpq and libpq-fe for postgres between 
> 8.0 and 8.1 but I am sure that there are some.  If anyone has clues, 
> I'd appreciate the help.  In the mean time I'll keep digging.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
> Mark Eackloff wrote:
>
>> gnucash 1.8.12 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4:
>> make ran with zero return code.
>> make check complains about numerous modules with "invalid ELF header" in
>> ../../../src/gnc-module/.libs/ begining with libgncmodule.a
>> FAIL: test-load-c
>> FAIL: test-load-scm
>> FAIL: test-gwrapped-c
>> FAIL: test-scm-module
>> FAIL: test-scm-multi
>> FAIL: test-load-deps
>> FAIL: test-adgdver
>> FAIL: test-dynload
>> FAIL: test-scm-dynload
>> FAIL: test-scm-init
>> =====================
>> 10 of 12 tests failed
>> =====================
>>
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