Re: coreutils-5.0 configure problem on MinGW/MSYS

[Jim Meyering]

"Stephan T. Lavavej" <address@hidden> wrote:
> configure fails with:
>
> 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 filesystems
>
> Does anyone know why this error occurs?

It's because the configure script was unable to determine how
to read the list of mounted filesystems on your system.
It tried several approaches that work on just about every Unix-like
system, and none of them worked.  Maybe one came close to working
and just needs a slightly different set of header files.
To see, check in your config.log file.  There you'll find details
on how/sort-of-why each of the tests failed.

If you know how to do it on your system
(i.e., what function to call, getmntent, getmnt, fread, etc, with
what arguments, and what headers), please send a little
C program (or documentation) demonstrating what to do.