built. The issue is that these tests are trying to test specific
components, and is calling the functions directly -- and therefore
needs to have the component linked in. This is fine when the
component is statically linked as part of libmpi, but presents a
problem when the component is a DSO.
GNU compilers/linkers allow us to link in the DSO as part of the test
executable (and everything "just works"), but this is not portable. A
better solution is going to involve:
- a better unit test support library that can load a DSO on demand
- using function pointers in the unit tests (rather than direct
function invocation)
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