Re: DESTDIR/staged install tests

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> This patch provides a couple of tests for staged installations.
> These usage cases (where all needed libraries are contained within
> the package being compiled) are pretty much what Libtool currently
> supports on several systems: GNU/Linux, AIX, HP-UX/IA, Solaris, and
> probably more I haven't tested yet.
>
> It fails currently on OpenBSD (patch to follow), HP-UX/PA (not
> analyzed yet).
>
> The usage of objdump for checking run paths is to be replaced by a
> more portable method eventually (but that is not so urgent: the test
> is pretty strong without it).
>
> OK to install?  There will be more tests to this end, these should
> be the least problematic.

New tests almost count as "obvious", don't you think? :-)

This is okay, is not portable with objdump, but that can be dealt  
with later, either by limiting the systems the test is run on, or  
making the test more portable.

Peter