Re: [PATCH] coreutils: fix build with uClibc

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/14/2014 06:53 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:46:50PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I noticed this issue from:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.buildroot/73294
>>
>> I've not tested the following on uclibc, but does the attached patch fix it?
>> (you just need to patch the m4/spawn_h.m4 file in coreutils to test this)
> 
> I guess it should fix the problem, but it would be better to fix uClibc. The 
> posix_spawn feature is not present yet in any released version of uClibc, 
> only 
> in the development tree. My proposed uClibc patch 
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.uclibc.general/23700) moves 
> posix_spawn to libc for compatibility with glibc.

OK great. I'll hold applying this so until the outcome of that is decided.

> The direct cause of build failure at 
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/ab1/ab1250c3d402ec3fbaf22eeffd07de218ffafb22/build-end.log
>  
> though, is not the mis-detection of posix_spawn, but that for some reason the 
> alternative gnulib implementation doesn't see the members of the 
> posix_spawn_file_actions_t struct. I have not figured out how this happens.

thanks,
Pádraig.