[fpc-devel] test suite, problem with missing libraries on the target

[Pierre Free Pascal]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : fpc-devel-bounces at lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-devel-
> bounces at lists.freepascal.org] De la part de Bernd Mueller
> Envoyé : lundi 30 mai 2011 11:38
> À : FPC developers' list
> Objet : Re: [fpc-devel] test suite, problem with missing libraries on the
> target
> 
> Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >
> > On 30 May 2011, at 11:19, Bernd Mueller wrote:
> >
> >> Jonas Maebe wrote:
> >>> Why do you limit it to Linux targets?
> >>
> >> I am not sure about the other targets.
> >>
> >> LibraryFileName:= 'lib' +
> >> ForceExtension(SplitFileName(PPFile[current]), 'so');
> >>
> >> The above code builds the library name out of the test program name.
> >> For example "Test1.pp" becomes "libTest1.so". This cannot be right for
> >> a Windows target for example.
> >
> > Windows is not supported as a remote target, but it's indeed not correct
> > for all unix targets either. The prefix of a library is always "lib" on
> > all targets, afaik. The suffix is available via dynlibs.SharedSuffix.
> > The downside of using the dynlibs unit is that it makes the dotest
> > program dependent on libdl (and hence libc) on Linux-targets. I'm not
> > sure about how to best solve this...
> 
> One could work with a default suffix ".so" and make this overridable by
> a new test option for example TEST_LIBRARY_SUFFIX.

   Just add a LibExt constant to dotest.pp source
with the same conditionals as for ExeExt, this should be enough.

Pierre Muller