Re: build of coreutils-6.12 on GNU/Linux RedHat4 fails

[Warren L Dodge]

Hi Jim

I built the snapshot you gave me and indeed it does compile.

I submitted another bug about cp not preserving time when copying to a
nfs mounted directory. It still doesn't work when coreutils is built and
executed on a GNU/Linux RedHat4 system. I could not include this
information in that bug because of the failed build.

 
cd coreutils-6.12.208-2441_install_dir/bin

./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes z
./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership yes /tmp/z
./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/z zz
./cp --preserve=mode,timestamps --no-preserve=ownership /tmp/z /tmp/zz

ll yes /tmp/z /tmp/zz z zz

-rwxr-xr-x  1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 84564 Oct  3 15:19 /tmp/z
-rwxr-xr-x  1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 84564 Oct  3 15:19 /tmp/zz
-rwxr-xr-x  1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 84564 Oct  3 15:19 yes
-rwxr-xr-x  1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 84564 Oct  3 15:21 z
-rwxr-xr-x  1 wdtmgr wdtmgr 84564 Oct  3 15:21 zz

>  From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
>  Cc: address@hidden
>  Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:03:01 +0200
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
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>  
>  Warren L Dodge <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > Sorry, I made a mistake on my first submission of this problem. I was
>  > setup to use the generic GNU/Linux RedHat4 system rather then my gnu
>  > tools.
>  >
>  > echo $PATH
>  > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>  >
>  > 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 with the same path.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > 
> #############################################################################
>  >
>  > 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'
>  
>  Thanks for the report.
>  Would you please try building with the latest snapshot?
>  
>    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.gz
>    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.gz.sig
>    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.lzma
>    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.lzma.sig
>  
>  I'm pretty sure that problem has been fixed.
>  If not, please let me know asap, since I hope
>  to make a test release very soon.
>  
>