build of coreutils-6.12 on GNU/Linux RedHat4 fails

[Warren L Dodge]

I was trying to build coreutils-6.12 on GNU/Linux RedHat4 and it fails
with the errors shown below.

I was able to build on GNU/Linux RedHat3.

The gcc I am using is 4.2.3. It was built on GNU/Linux RedHat3.

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gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../../coreutils-6.12/src -I../lib  
-DENABLE_MATCHPATHCON=1 -I../../coreutils-6.12/lib   -g -O2 -MT 
ginstall-install.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ginstall-install.Tpo -c -o 
ginstall-install.o `test -f 'install.c' || echo 
'../../coreutils-6.12/src/'`install.c
../../coreutils-6.12/src/install.c: In function `setdefaultfilecon':
../../coreutils-6.12/src/install.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of 
function `matchpathcon_init_prefix'
mv -f .deps/ginstall-install.Tpo .deps/ginstall-install.Po
gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../../coreutils-6.12/src -I../lib  
-DENABLE_MATCHPATHCON=1 -I../../coreutils-6.12/lib   -g -O2 -MT 
ginstall-prog-fprintf.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ginstall-prog-fprintf.Tpo -c -o 
ginstall-prog-fprintf.o `test -f 'prog-fprintf.c' || echo 
'../../coreutils-6.12/src/'`prog-fprintf.c
mv -f .deps/ginstall-prog-fprintf.Tpo .deps/ginstall-prog-fprintf.Po
gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../../coreutils-6.12/src -I../lib  
-DENABLE_MATCHPATHCON=1 -I../../coreutils-6.12/lib   -g -O2 -MT ginstall-copy.o 
-MD -MP -MF .deps/ginstall-copy.Tpo -c -o ginstall-copy.o `test -f 'copy.c' || 
echo '../../coreutils-6.12/src/'`copy.c
mv -f .deps/ginstall-copy.Tpo .deps/ginstall-copy.Po
gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../../coreutils-6.12/src -I../lib  
-DENABLE_MATCHPATHCON=1 -I../../coreutils-6.12/lib   -g -O2 -MT 
ginstall-cp-hash.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ginstall-cp-hash.Tpo -c -o 
ginstall-cp-hash.o `test -f 'cp-hash.c' || echo 
'../../coreutils-6.12/src/'`cp-hash.c
mv -f .deps/ginstall-cp-hash.Tpo .deps/ginstall-cp-hash.Po
gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2  -Wl,--as-needed -o ginstall ginstall-install.o 
ginstall-prog-fprintf.o ginstall-copy.o ginstall-cp-hash.o 
../lib/libcoreutils.a  ../lib/libcoreutils.a  -lselinux -lacl 
ginstall-install.o(.text+0x40b): In function `install_file_in_file':
../../coreutils-6.12/src/install.c:251: undefined reference to 
`matchpathcon_init_prefix'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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Here is where I find matchpathcon_init_prefix. I deleted all the change
log files. 

coreutils-6.12                is the untarred source
coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6  is the parallel build tree

./coreutils-6.12/lib/se-selinux.in.h :   static inline int 
matchpathcon_init_prefix (char const *path,
./coreutils-6.12/src/install.c :         /* Calling matchpathcon_init_prefix 
(NULL, "/first_component/")
./coreutils-6.12/src/install.c :              matchpathcon_init_prefix (NULL, 
prefix);

./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.4/lib/selinux/selinux.h :   static inline int 
matchpathcon_init_prefix (char const *path,
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.4/src/ginstall-install.o :   Binary file 
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.4/src/ginstall-install.o matches
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.4/src/ginstall :   Binary file 
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.4/src/ginstall matches
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6/src/ginstall-install.o :   Binary file 
./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6/src/ginstall-install.o matches