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Re: configure: error: ... list of mounted file systems


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: configure: error: ... list of mounted file systems
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:01:42 +0100

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> Hello, bug-coreutils,
>> coreutils-6.7/configure is failing on z/OS v1r7:
>> [snip]
>> checking for listmntent... no
>> checking for getmntinfo... 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
>> Any suggestion for circumventing this?  I really only want to build
>> md5sum.
>
> On the last at-least-two platforms (NSK and Interix) where I have had to
> fix configure so this was a non-fatal error (note: you will also have to
> fix Makefile to not build things like du that need the fs list), I just
> edited configure to make this test non-fatal. Look for 'could not
> determine ...' and change the script to remove the exit's when this happens.
>
> Can we please get this fixed, someone? We're up to at-least-three
> platforms this affects.

As for Interix, this has been discussed before:

  http://www.nabble.com/Re:-configure-breakage-under-Interix-p2818820.html

The author of that patch (Cc'd) was put off by the hassle of having to
file copyright assignment papers for each project he might contribute to,
so hasn't filed any.  I tried to see if there's an alternative (asked
address@hidden back in Feb, 2005), but it appears I didn't receive a reply.

For NSK and zOS, it'd be great if people who care about those systems
would submit similar patches -- and agree to assign copyright, of course.

So far, I don't think it's worthwhile to kludge up the code so that it
doesn't build the affected tools -- but if someone sends in a complete
patch to implement that, I'd probably apply it.




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