build of coreutils-6.12 on GNU/Linux RedHat4 fails

[Warren L Dodge]

Sorry, I made a mistake on my first submission of this problem. I was
setup to use the generic GNU/Linux RedHat4 system rather then my gnu
tools.

echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

I was trying to build coreutils-6.12 on GNU/Linux RedHat4 and it fails
with the errors shown below.

I was able to build on GNU/Linux RedHat3 with the same path.



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gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2  -Wl,--as-needed -o ginstall ginstall-install.o 
ginstall-prog-fprintf.o ginstall-copy.o ginstall-cp-hash.o 
../lib/libcoreutils.a  ../lib/libcoreutils.a  -lselinux -lacl 
ginstall-install.o(.text+0x40b): In function `install_file_in_file':
../../coreutils-6.12/src/install.c:251: undefined reference to 
`matchpathcon_init_prefix'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [ginstall] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
make  install-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath'
Making install in lib
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
make  install-am
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
test yes != no || /bin/sh 
/proj/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12/build-aux/install-sh
 -d /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib
if test -f /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.alias; then \
  sed -f ref-add.sed 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.alias > 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp ; \
  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.alias ; \
  rm -f /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp ; \
else \
  if test yes = no; then \
    sed -f ref-add.sed charset.alias > 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp ; \
    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp 
/tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.alias ; \
    rm -f /tools/wdtgnu/coreutils-6.12_2.6_shortpath/lib/charset.tmp ; \
  fi ; \
fi
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/lib'
Making install in src
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/src'
make  install-am
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/mnts/tekfs42/vol/volnb05/wdtold/warrend/gnusrc/200020-coreutils-6.12_gcc-4.2.3/coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6_shortpath/src'
gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2  -Wl,--as-needed -o ginstall ginstall-install.o 
ginstall-prog-fprintf.o ginstall-copy.o ginstall-cp-hash.o 
../lib/libcoreutils.a  ../lib/libcoreutils.a  -lselinux -lacl 
ginstall-install.o(.text+0x40b): In function `install_file_in_file':
../../coreutils-6.12/src/install.c:251: undefined reference to 
`matchpathcon_init_prefix'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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Here is where I find matchpathcon_init_prefix. I deleted all the change
log files. 

coreutils-6.12                is the untarred source
coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6  is the parallel build tree

./coreutils-6.12/lib/se-selinux.in.h :   static inline int 
matchpathcon_init_prefix (char const *path,
./coreutils-6.12/src/install.c :         /* Calling matchpathcon_init_prefix 
(NULL, "/first_component/")
./coreutils-6.12/src/install.c :              matchpathcon_init_prefix (NULL, 
prefix);

./coreutils-6.12_i686_linux2.6/src/ginstall-install.o :   Binary file 
./src/ginstall-install.o matches


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Note on the GNU/Linux RedHat3 build I see matchpathcon_init_prefix here

./lib/selinux/selinux.h :   static inline int matchpathcon_init_prefix (char 
const *path,
./src/ginstall-install.o :   Binary file ./src/ginstall-install.o matches
./src/ginstall :   Binary file ./src/ginstall matches