On 10/31/2014 05:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 10/31/2014 03:41 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:56:06AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 10/31/2014 03:30 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >>>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:29:05AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>>>> >>>>> So linkat() is now available but doesn't support hardlinks to symlinks >>>>> contrary to the POSIX spec. So it would be best we consider linkat() >>>>> unavailable, which can be done manually like: >>>>> >>>>> ac_cv_func_linkat=no ./configure >>>>> >>>>> We'll have to augment the gnulib linkat check to actually check >>>>> that linkat() works, rather than just being available. >>>> >>>> Passing ac_cv_func_linkat=no to configure and using your attached patch >>>> results in a large number of failures on x86_64-apple-darwin14. >>> >>> Good that's better. coreutils tests have passed, and you're getting >>> to gnulib issues below.
I pushed the following slightly different more general patch to gnulib to address this issue: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8e57ce5 thanks, Pádraig.
