Hi The autoconf check for fchownat appears slightly broken:
checking for fchownat... yes checking whether fchownat works with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW... no The check for AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW was added by Jim a while back to work around a Glibc-2.4 bug (on x86). The bug was fixed in Glibc-2.5 and above but the autoconf check always returns "no". I've tested Glibc 2.5 and 2.6. Secondly, if I try to force the correct result by configuring like this: ./configure gl_cv_func_fchownat_nofollow_works=yes it doesn't work because of: checking whether fchownat works with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW... (cached) yes ./configure: line 33949: test: =: unary operator expected I'm using the coreutils-6.9 release and I only noticed this because Debian's `fakeroot' program (an older version, not the latest from unstable which supports all the new *at() calls) started working again when it previously failed. Regards Greg _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
