Re: auth-test fails (E200006: svn_auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers should return an array of 5 providers)

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:14:57PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Philip Martin wrote on Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:55:49 +0000:
> > Yes. The kwallet and gnome keyring providers are loaded dynamically and
> > the loader will not look for providers in the right place.
>
> Why won't the loader look for them in the right place?

dlopen() accepts either an absolute pathname or the basename
of a shared library. In the latter case, the library is searched
in the standard library search path, and in dirs in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

If we specified an absolute path we'd have to compile the abspath
of the working copy containing the shared libs into the binaries
to run tests. And re-compile with a different abspath during 'make install'.
It would also prevent moving an existing SVN installation to a different
prefix without recompilation. This could cause problems for packagers.
Received on 2011-11-13 17:40:25 CET