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Op 14-3-2014 15:24 Chris J. Breisch schreef:
> Erwin Waterlander wrote:
>> Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef:
>>>
>>>
>>> There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year.
>>>
>>> It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as
>>> I'm unconvinced that the current version is working.
>>>
>>
>> It was in October when I tried. I also could get libpipelines and man-db
>> compiled, but it did not work properly. I had also failing tests in the
>> libpipeline package. In the end I could display a man page in Russian
>> and English of Vim, but man-db coredumped on the Fench man page.
>>
>> I remember there were indeed problems with 'check'. At that time this
>> bug, http://sourceforge.net/p/check/bugs/88/, was still open. The author
>> of man-db suggested to set CK_FORK=no in the environment. That helped
>> for several tests, but the first test of libpipelines kept failing.
>>
>> I also had a problem that I always got static libraries instead of 
>> shared.
>> Even when I explicitly configure with --enable-static=no
>> --enable-shared=yes.
>>
>> regards,
>>
> I downloaded and built the latest version of check, and it seems to 
> work much better. I still have issues with libpipelines tests. It 
> appears that there is a 32/64-bit issue somewhere. I'm using Cygwin 
> x64. Many of the tests fail with issues similar to the following:
>
> /home/Chris/Stuff/non-GNU/libpipeline/build/tests/../../libpipeline-1.2.6/tests/exec.c:114:(.text+0x121): 
> relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol 
> `_ck_assert_failed'
>
> I can dig a little deeper into this, and I can also try a 32-bit 
> version, but not until later. I don't even have a 32-bit install of 
> Cygwin on this box, and I'd have to figure out exactly what packages 
> I'd need to build check and libpipeline.
>

I ran it on 32 bit cygwin, I did not try 64 bit. But is should work on 
both of course.

-- 
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/


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