make test: invalid ELF header

[Fred Stevens]

Thanks!

I tried the config.guess from 1.8.11 and got the same results.  
Including --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu for 1.8.12 produced a correct 
build.  I still get the same guile crash with postgres 8.1.1 though.  I 
suspect that it is due to differences in the postgres libraries and 
include files though.  It works with postgresql 8.0.5 but not 8.1.1

Fred

Mark Eackloff wrote:

>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.
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>I can't help with the guile crashes.
>
>Mark Eackloff
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>Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>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.
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>>-derek
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>>Quoting Fred Stevens <2skaters at cannon.net>:
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>>>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:
>>>
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>>>>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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