Re: Test failure due to lack of -lrpathy

[Bruno Haible]

Avis, Ed wrote:
> Building gettext-0.12.1 on SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc, with
> GNU libiconv installed, all the tests pass except one:
>
> /usr/local/gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lrpathy
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [usez] Error 1
> FAIL: rpath-3abd

Thanks for the info. Since with the native linker /usr/bin/ld, all tests
pass, the problem is either a bug in GNU ld or in libtool regarding this
particular configuration (use of GNU ld on Solaris).

The semantics of the test rpath-3abd are explained in the rpath.README
file; It means that if you use a certain mix of static and shared
libraries, and all are installed in different directories, you'll get
some linking errors. The workarounds are of course either to install
all packages [except gcc!] with the same --prefix, or to avoid the
use of static libraries.

I'm not going to debug this myself.

Bruno