[Rpm-maint] massive 'make check' failures (first of all, because of atlocal.in)

[Sergei Steshenko]

Hello,

I am building a lot of stuff from sources in a manner each
target is installed in a separate directory, e.g.:

/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/file-5.08
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/mozilla_nss-3.12.11_nspr-4.8.9
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/db-5.2.28
,
etc.


The build is done automatically, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set
automatically as needed, for example, for rpm-4.9.1 it is
set this way:

"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/bison-2.4.3/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/db-5.2.28/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/file-5.08/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/gettext-0.18/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/libiconv_pre-1.13.1/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/libtool-2.4/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/lua-5.1.4/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/mozilla_nss-3.12.11_nspr-4.8.9/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/ncurses-5.8/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/popt-1.16/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/readline-6.2/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/sqlite-autoconf-3070701/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/tcl-8.5.9/lib:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/tcl-8.5.9/lib/expect5.44.1.15:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/tcl-8.5.9/lib/tcl8.5/graphviz:/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/zlib-1.2.5/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

".

'make check' first of all had a lot of failures because 'rpm' couldn't load
'libdb-5.2.so' file.

Digging the issue I've found that the root cause is in
'rpm-4.9.1/tests/atlocal.in' file, specifically in this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${abs_builddir}/testing at usrlibdir@"

line. In reality this line becomes

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${abs_builddir}/testing/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/rpm-4.9.1/lib"

in 'rpm-4.9.1/tests/atlocal' file,  which is senseless anyway, i.e. this path
doesn't exist.

To improve the situation I repalced

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${abs_builddir}/testing at usrlibdir@"

with

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${abs_builddir}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

- in my case LD_LIBRARY_PATH is definitely set. But a better
solution is needed for general case.

Still there are a lot of failures - mostly of

+error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm

kind.

There should be a way to test 'rpm' not using root privileges.

Thanks,
  Sergei.