On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > Following changes in Fedora about exposing shared libraries > dependancies, libvirt built failed for one of the test binaries > because it didn't explicitely required -ldl > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib > -I../include -I../include -I../src -I../src/util -I../src/conf > -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE=\"libvirt\" -Wall > -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs > -Wpointer-arith -Wextra -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings > -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wredundant-decls > -Wno-sign-compare -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -O2 -g -pipe -Wall > -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector > --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom > -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c nodeinfotest.c > CCLD nodeinfotest > /usr/bin/ld: > ../src/.libs/libvirt_test.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_la-vbox_XPCOMCGlue.o): > undefined reference to symbol 'dlopen@(a)GLIBC_2.1' > /usr/bin/ld: note: 'dlopen@(a)GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /lib/libdl.so.2 > so try adding it to the linker command line > /lib/libdl.so.2: could not read symbols: Invalid operation > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > the following patch fixes it, This isn't corect. nodeinfotest isn't the thing that is ultimately using libdl. The place we need it is in src/Makefile.am against libvirt_driver_vbox_la_LDFLAGS

NB, we also need to adjust the configure.ac check