Running tests in a development environment

[Matthew Booth <mbooth redhat com>]

I'm currently developing GObject bindings for libguestfs, and have been 
having some problems running tests from my local development 
environment. Specifically I get:

gi._glib.GError: Could not locate guestfs_session_new: 
libguestfs-gobject-1.0.soso: cannot open shared object file: No such 
file or directory

Note the .soso. I have no idea where this duplicated suffix comes from, 
and it obviously doesn't exist. If I create it, however, I get:

gi._glib.GError: Could not locate guestfs_session_new: 
/home/mbooth/src/libguestfs/gobject/.libs/libguestfs-gobject-1.0.soso: 
undefined symbol: g_free

Suspecting that I perhaps needed some more environment variables set (we 
currently set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and GI_TYPELIB_PATH), We currently run gjs 
tests just fine with this environment, so it has been sanity-checked. I 
checked out pygobject to see how its tests are run. It turns out they 
don't run for me either. Running make check ends in:

PYTHONPATH=..:../tests:${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH} 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./.libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
GI_TYPELIB_PATH=.:$GI_TYPELIB_PATH 
XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/usr/share TESTS_BUILDDIR=. 
/usr/bin/dbus-launch  /usr/bin/python -Wd 
-Werror::PendingDeprecationWarning -Werror::DeprecationWarning ./runtests.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./runtests.py", line 44, in <module>
    suite = loader.loadTestsFromNames(names)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 128, in 
loadTestsFromNames
    suites = [self.loadTestsFromName(name, module) for name in names]
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/unittest/loader.py", line 91, in 
loadTestsFromName
    module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy))
  File "/home/mbooth/src/pygobject/tests/test_pygtkcompat.py", line 9, 
in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gdk
  File "../gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: ../gi/_gi.so: undefined symbol: g_callable_info_invoke

I suspect a common cause with my undefined symbol in libguestfs. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matt
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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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