[bug-gnulib] gl_LIST_MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEMS appears to fail on HPUX 11.23.

[James Youngman]

This problem applies to HPUX 11.23 on ia64 and HPPA.  GNU findutils
now uses the gnulib module 'mountlist'.  Someone has sent me a bug
report describing how findutils-4.2.10 fails to compile on HPUX 11.23
(using one of the HP TestDrive machines) because
gl_LIST_MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEMS in gnulib's ls-mntd-fs.m4 cannot
determine how to list the mounted filesystems:-


% gunzip < ~/findutils-4.2.10.tar.gz | tar xf -
% cd findutils-4.2.10
% uname -a
HP-UX xxxxxx B.11.23 U 9000/800 1187371536 unlimited-user license
% env CC=c89 ./configure && make all check
checking build system type... hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23
checking host system type... hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.23
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/imake/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether debug output should be produced... no
checking for gcc... c89
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether c89 accepts -g... yes
checking for c89 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of c89... hp
checking how to run the C preprocessor... c89 -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
[...]
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for mempcpy... (cached) no
checking for memset... yes
checking for listmntent... no
checking for getmntinfo... no
checking for sys/ucred.h... no
checking for sys/mount.h... yes
checking mntent.h usability... yes
checking mntent.h presence... yes
checking for mntent.h... yes
checking sys/fs_types.h usability... no
checking sys/fs_types.h presence... no
checking for sys/fs_types.h... no
checking for struct fsstat.f_fstypename... no
checking for getmntent in -lsun... no
checking for getmntent in -lseq... no
checking for getmntent in -lgen... yes
checking for getmntent... yes
checking for listmntent of Cray/Unicos-9... no
checking for mntctl function and struct vmount... no
checking for one-argument getmntent function... no
checking for two-argument getmntent function... no
checking for getfsstat function... no
checking for FIXME existence of three headers... no
checking for getmntinfo function... no
checking for getmnt function... no
checking for next_dev... no
checking for fs_stat_dev... no
checking fs_info.h usability... no
checking fs_info.h presence... no
checking for fs_info.h... no
checking for BEOS mounted file system support functions... no
checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on
/etc/mnttab... no
configure: error: could not determine how to read list of mounted file
systems
%
%
% exit
%


According to
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60105/B2355-60105_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60105/00/22/2209-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60105/00/22/2209-toc.html&searchterms=getmntent&queryid=20041212-163003
HPUX does have a single-argument type of getmntent().

Hence I'm not sure what the problem is. 

Regards,
James.