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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-01-12 07:58:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-01-12 08:06:47 +0100 |
| commit | 6beca4248f572c2503657fb16341bd43cfa7d254 (patch) | |
| tree | cc5512cc589f4f53b6d5b6f18417726221c44ee0 /NEWS | |
| parent | 37b8bfda56adc0c633b041948ef78e53b8ce1add (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6beca4248f572c2503657fb16341bd43cfa7d254.tar.xz | |
build: fix build failure due to missing libxattr
Configure is supposed to detect insufficient XATTR support.
However, if a system has the required headers, but no library,
the configure script would mistakenly enable USE_XATTR.
* m4/xattr.m4 (gl_FUNC_XATTR): If the attr_copy_file function
is not found, don't set USE_XATTR.
Nelson Beebe reported a link failure on RHEL 5.3.
Also, do not let the combination of --disable-xattr and
a stray LIB_XATTR environment setting perturb the build.
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- own <wchar.h> header. Now, gnulib works around the bug in those older glibc <wchar.h> headers. + Building would fail with a link error (cp/copy.o) when XATTR headers + were installed without the corresponding library. Now, configure + detects that and disables xattr support, as one would expect. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.3 (2010-01-07) [stable] |