[syslog-ng] [Bug 128] template() broken in latest 3.3 git

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 13:18 +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2011, Balazs Scheidler verbalised:
> > The error messages indicate that your test suite couldn't load the
> > "basicfuncs" plugin that contains an implementation for $(if) $(grep)
> > and $(echo)
> 
> Indeed it can't, because it's looking for them in the install location,
> and I'm running tests before installation (which seems only sane with
> something as system-critical as a logging daemon, especially when it's
> a beta version and my last three intallations were failures and led to
> its being backed out ;) ).
> 
> access("/usr/lib/syslog-ng/libbasicfuncs.so", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/usr/lib/syslog-ng/libbasicfuncs.la", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/usr/lib/syslog-ng/libconvertfuncs.so", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> access("/usr/lib/syslog-ng/libconvertfuncs.la", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> The test_template_LDADD line has led to the right directories for these
> plugins being added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but dlopen() of course does not
> follow LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it's following the module-path, which is unset
> because all we've called is cfg_new().
> 
> This could all be fixed by setting module_path, but unfortunately the
> module-path variable consulted by the loader (as opposed to the global
> which is its ultimate source) is not that easy to set: you need to run
> the lexer, which means you need a configuration file, and none of the
> tests in tests/unit have one of those. Perhaps it would be best to move
> the lexer->args out of the lexer, or just provide an outside-lexer way
> to initialize it? (Or simply provide a trivial configuration file and
> parse it in the unit tests... that's probably least invasive.)

hmm.. the test suite can run in a private directory too, as the
testsuite is directly linked against the .so-s in the private directory,
and it does work here, however funny ld options might break that.

what distro are you using?


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Bazsi