Re: gnulib/tests/utimecmp.c:183: undefined reference to `hash_insert'

[Jim Meyering]

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?