make test: invalid ELF header

[Mark Eackloff]

Ok.  So we use --build= as an argument to the configure script.  The
trick is to figure out exactly what is supposed to follow --build= for
your system.  configure --help didn't do it for me but the following
worked:  Instead of skimming through the 26000 lines of the configure
script for the answer I went back to version 1.8.11 and executed
conf.guess.  It yielded "i686-pc-linux-gnu".  The 1.8.12 version yielded
"i686-pc-linux".  Close but no banana.  So "configure
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu" worked.  This may help Fred also with the
invalid ELF header.

I can't help with the guile crashes.

Mark Eackloff

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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