Hello, On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:58, Necos Secon wrote: > I have a system running Slackware 9.0 (upgraded to current) with the > following specs: > > gcc 3.3.2 > glibc 2.3.2 (with sscanf patch) > EA/ACL/NFS patch 0.85 (downloaded acl.bestbits.at) with kernel 2.4.24 > acl-2.2.22 (downloaded from SGI's ftp) > attr-2.4.13 (downloaded from SGI's ftp) > > As of right now, my ext3 partitions are mounted with acl enabled, and Samba > compiled just fine with acl support. However, when I tried to compile > coreutils-5.1.2 to use my acl libs and headers, I got this: > > checking sys/acl.h usability... yes > checking sys/acl.h presence... yes > checking for sys/acl.h... yes > checking for acl... no
That is the test for the acl(2) system call which exists on Solaris and a few other UNIXes. Check for the acl_get_file test for Linux. > After getting this error a couple of times, I tried applying the > coreutils-5.0 patches. There are 6 patches. I tried apply the first 3 > (coreutils-5.0.dif, coreutils-acl.diff, coreutils-acl+posix.diff), but all > three failed at some point. I have uploaded a current snapshow of the patches for coreutils-5.1.2. They should work for you. > After investigating the patches, I noticed that the 2 acl patches are for > coreutils 4.x. Well, the patches did still apply to coreutils-5.0. > However, the patches do, indeed add acl lib checking to the > m4 files (to my knowledge, these are used with automake and m4), which > should detect the libraries and enable the acl code in coreutils. Further > investigation shows that the acl.m4 file that is included with coreutils > lacks this extra code, and as such, the patch should work. Maybe I'm missing > something with the patching. Were the patches made with a different version > of diff (I have 2.8.1 installed)? Yes, with a slightly newer one, but that doesn't matter. Regards, -- Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
