Building tests from multiple object files

[Andreas Schwab]

Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

> The glibc makefiles do not provide a simple way to assemble a test binary
> from multiple object files.  One way to see this is to apply the attached
> harmless patch and then run
>
>   make subdirs=elf check
>
> (or whatever you do to run the test suite).  Linking the test fails with:
>
> /home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/elf/tst-tlsalign-vars.o: In function
> `use_errno':
> /home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/git/elf/tst-tlsalign-vars.c:36: undefined
> reference to `__libc_errno'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> ../Rules:154: recipe for target
> '/home/fweimer/src/gnu/glibc/build/elf/tst-tlsalign-extern' failed
>
> The apparent cause is that the second object file for the test was built
> against internal glibc headers.

No, the problem is that it is built with MODULE_NAME=libc.  It should be
nonlib, so it needs to be put on test-extras (and on extra-test-objs to
get dependency right).

Andreas.

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