lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187 Title: change in readlink() errno in 2.6.39 and later kernels causes FTBFS for packages with older gnulib Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Status in linux source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in linux source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Natty: Invalid Status in linux source package in Natty: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Oneiric: Invalid Status in linux source package in Oneiric: Invalid Status in libvirt source package in Hardy: Invalid Status in linux source package in Hardy: Invalid Status in m4 package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: When building packages in a chroot with gnulib testcases for readlink() on a 2.6.39 (Oneiric or newer) kernel, these packages may FTBFS. This is due to the following: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-03/msg00308.html "coreutils' "make check" failed on rawhide due to a kernel change in how readlink and readlinkat treat the empty file name. Before, they'd fail with ENOENT. Now, it's EINVAL." This was discovered when preparing security updates for libvirt, but will affect more than libvirt, (see Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630902). For libvirt, the patch in the above bug can be applied to gnulib/tests/test-areadlink.h to get these building again on newer releases. This is SRU-worthy, as libvirt will not build once the buildds are running newer kernels. If it is not SRUd before the next security update, the security team will do it as part of their update process. Upstream kernel commit that introduced the change: 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/817187/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp