Hi,

Every now and then I see questions here that involve reports of "undefined symbol" during the make test phase of a module build procedure ... eg this from this post: 
Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.so' for module PGPLOT: /usr/l
+ocal/pgplot/libpgplot.so: undefined symbol: e_rsfe at /usr/lib64/perl
+5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230, <STDIN> lin
+e 1.

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In this instance the OP (nickschurch) was building on a nix-type architecture.

It's the fact that this error occurred during the 'make test' (runtime) phase, rather than the 'make' (compile-time) phase, that has me puzzled.

As a (primarily) MS-Windows (MinGW compiler) user I only ever see "undefined symbol" errors at the 'make' (compilation) phase. I have *never* struck an "undefined symbol" error during the 'make test' (runtime) stage of a module build on MS Windows. Is this because:

a) I'm incredibly lucky ?
b) I'm on MS Windows ?
c) I only ever build against *static* libraries ?
d) other ?

Cheers,
Rob

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