How to test unit tests in HIPL?

"make check" runs unit tests in HIPL. According to the following information, at least Ubuntu 14.04 ships with an outdated version of the check library:

https://sourceforge.net/p/check/mailman/message/34265575/

You can see this also in config.log after running ./configure:

configure:11926: checking for suite_create in -lcheck
configure:11951: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lcheck -lm -lcrypto >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_pack.o): In function `ppack':
(.text+0x51d): undefined reference to `__pthread_register_cancel'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check_pack.o): In function `ppack':
(.text+0x551): undefined reference to `__pthread_unregister_cancel'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

As suggested in the email thread, you can install check from the sources as follows:

sudo apt-get remove check
wget http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/check/check/0.10.0/check-0.10.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf check-0.10.0.tar.gz
./configure && make
sudo make install

NOTE: make sure to run...

  sudo ldconfig

...before actual unit testing:

  ./configure && make check # running configure is mandatory!