Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:09:41PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> That suggests that it linked. >> >> In what context did you see the link failure? >> While running tests for some other package? > > Yes, this is the attempt to get libguestfs working again on RHEL 5. > > It could also be because of 'libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh' which we > use to workaround some misfeature of libtool: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/60a2f8706b305b4068df020598abee9566022e20/libtool-kill-dependency_libs.sh
That looks promising. Can you easily refrain from using that when building gnulib's own tests?