In some situations, libtool will change directories and perform
a link step before executing the libtest test app. Since
LD_PRELOAD is in effect for this entire process, the path to the
binary must be absolute so it will be valid no matter in which
directory the app is running.
A shared library tests/libtest/.libs/lihostname.so is preloaded in NTLM
test-cases to override the system implementation of gethostname(). It
makes it possible to test the NTLM authentication for exact match, and
this way test the implementation of MD4 and DES.
If LD_PRELOAD doesn't work, a debug build willl also workk as debug
builds are now made to prefer a specific environment variable and will
then return that content as host name instead of the actual one.
Kamil wrote the bulk of this, Daniel Stenberg polished it.
