[Bug libc/804] malloc/tst-mtrace minor problem

["gschafer at zip dot com dot au" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>]

------- Additional Comments From gschafer at zip dot com dot au  2005-05-12 00:24 -------
Yes, confirmed. This is a real bug, albeit a very minor one. But the suggested
fix is not the correct one.

The Glibc testsuite normally runs binaries using:

  elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path blah:blah:blah

to overcome the problem of having the dynamic linker hardwired to a name which
may not exist yet. This also explains why most folks won't see the problem
(those specifying a prefix where a dynamic linker already exists).

In this instance, the existing technique won't work because the invocation of
the mtrace perl script (from inside tst-mtrace.sh) runs the `tst-mtrace' binary
directly.

A possible fix is to run the mtrace perl script without using the binary ie:
just use the data file alone. This makes it work for me. But I'm unsure whether
running the (optional) binary will make a difference for what is being tested here.

Anyway, patch to follow.

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |gschafer at zip dot com dot
                   |                            |au
            Summary|malloc/tst-mtrace linked w/ |malloc/tst-mtrace minor
                   |wrong dynamic-linker        |problem
                   |directive                   |


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=804

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