Make install required before make check

[David.Pitt@nab.com.au]

Hi Torbjorn,

Thanks for your response. I discovered the cause of the problem, I had both
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 set in my environment.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 overrides LD_LIBRARY_PATH, man ld.so.1 for details.
Unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 allowed 'make check' to work without 'make
install'.

Please close this bug report as Resolved - User Error.

Regards,

David Pitt  | Enterprise Services Technology | National Australia Bank
Limited
Phone +61 3 8641 2014 | Email david.pitt at nab.com.au | Level 6, 500 Bourke
Street, Melbourne


                                                                          
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David.Pitt at nab.com.au writes:

  1. The website bangs on about the importance of 'make check', but INSTALL
  only mentions it in passing.

I'll expand the warning text in INSTALL.

  2. I tried the traditional configure/make/make test/make install
sequence:

  $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
  ...
  $ make
  ...
  $ make test
  make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
  $ make check

The GNU project uses "make check", else the sequence is correct.

  make[4]: Entering directory `/home/dpitt/oss/gmp-4.2/tests'
  ld.so.1: t-bswap: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or
  directory
  FAIL: t-bswap
  ...

  After some puzzlement (no help from INSTALL), I divined the correct order
  is:

  ./configure
  make
  make install
  make check

That is not the correct order.

I don't know what happens on your system, gmp 4.2 builds and checks
fine on other sparc-solaris systems, without any need for a premature
install.

  This is bizarre, I don't want to install if 'make check' fails. This
  shouldn't be hard to fix, update INSTALL when you do. And please include
a
  'test' target in the Makefile as an alias for 'check'.

It is indeed bizarre.  I cannot debug the linking failure, since I
cannot reproduce it.  I will have to reply on you to debug it.  Start
by looking in your environment for suspect settings of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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Torbjörn



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