I've narrowed down further. The problem seems related to waitpid being 
called inside a thread spawned from the parent.

On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:41:00 AM UTC+2, Martin Croome wrote:
>
> I figured it out. Unfortunately there still seems to be this no child 
> process issue.
>
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:14:46 AM UTC+2, Martin Croome wrote:
>>
>> It seems like there is an install step that I'm missing where this script 
>> is run but this is make difficult by the fact that I'm cross compiling.
>>
>> make check obviously doesn't work since run-tests cannot work on my host. 
>> make tests/run-tests creates this libtool wrapper. I guess there is 
>> something inbetween.
>>
>> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:07:00 AM UTC+2, Martin Croome wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. Thanks for replying
>>>
>>> I'm using the configure .. make build route. The resulting run-tests 
>>> binary has a libtool shell wrapper around it which fails on my target since 
>>> the paths are all wrong. I saw the fixtures for the tests and have copied 
>>> all of those into an appropriate structure on the target. I've tried 
>>> compiling only the static libuv.a (using arguments to configure) and then 
>>> it seems to work ok (i.e. I get an elf executable) but then on my target 
>>> platform I get a bizarre error. Waitpid in run-tests always returns -1 (no 
>>> child process) even though everything seems to work ok (fork, exec 
>>> individual test). A normal fork exec waitpid process works on my target. I 
>>> built a test program to verify that.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering whether I shouldn't abandon autotools and try to build 
>>> with gyp. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack to figure out where 
>>> things are going wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 6, 2014 8:47:41 AM UTC+2, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/10/14 14:46, Martin Croome wrote: 
>>>> > Hi 
>>>> > 
>>>> > I wonder if someone could give me a little help cross compiling the 
>>>> > libuv unit tests. I'm using 1.0 and running into libtool/automake 
>>>> > issues. The tests are built as a libtool executable with stuck on 
>>>> script 
>>>> > and all the paths are wrong for my target. Is there any simple way to 
>>>> > force a normal binary to be built? 
>>>> > 
>>>>
>>>> What issues are you running into? How are you cross-compiling libuv? 
>>>> The 
>>>> tests are compiled as a static binary, but some of them do depend on 
>>>> some fixture files and the libuv directory structure a bit. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, 
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Saúl Ibarra Corretgé 
>>>> http://bettercallsaghul.com 
>>>>
>>>

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