On 12/19/2013 01:43 AM, Andrew Warshall wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I'm resending this since it didn't seem to go through the first
> time; also, I think I have a solution.
>
> This test fails on my system (Linux 3.7.10 kernel, glibc-2.17);
> apparently "du a" is giving as output :
>
> du: WARNING: Circular directory structure.
> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system.
> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER.
> The following directory is part of the cycle:
> 'a/b'
>
> instead of the expected
>
> du: mount point 'a/b' already traversed
>
> Apparently, ./configure is assuming I don't have hasmntopt(), which
> has become an issue because lib/mountlist.c now protects hasmntopt()
> with #defines
>
> I've attached a patch, but I don't have autoconf; so someone who
> does should test it before committing it.
CC'ing gnulib as that's where this check originates.
Also CC'ing interested parties from this related thread from today:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-12/msg00143.html
Thanks for the analysis and patch!
Pádraig.
diff -Naurx '*~' coreutils-8.22-orig/ChangeLog coreutils-8.22/ChangeLog
--- coreutils-8.22-orig/ChangeLog 2013-12-18 20:30:27.000000000 -0500
+++ coreutils-8.22/ChangeLog 2013-12-18 20:41:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-12-18 Andrew D Warshall <warsh...@99main.com>
+
+ * m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4: Check for hasmntopt() on platforms with
+ 1-argument getmntent() (instead of assuming absence).
+
2013-12-13 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com>
version 8.22
diff -Naurx '*~' coreutils-8.22-orig/m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4 coreutils-8.22/m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4
--- coreutils-8.22-orig/m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4 2013-12-18 20:30:27.000000000 -0500
+++ coreutils-8.22/m4/ls-mntd-fs.m4 2013-12-18 20:32:22.000000000 -0500
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@
[Define if there is a function named getmntent for reading the list
of mounted file systems, and that function takes a single argument.
(4.3BSD, SunOS, HP-UX, Dynix, Irix)])
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([hasmntopt])
fi
fi
