bug#14024: Test failure in coreutils 8.13

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 03/27/2013 02:13 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 11:47 AM, Ellis N. Thomas wrote:
>>     Results of grep FAIL: tests/test-suite.log
>>   FAIL: tests/cp/nfs-removal-race.sh (exit: 99)
>>   FAIL: tests/ls/getxattr-speedup.sh (exit: 99)
>
> Both of those are caused by:
> 
>>  + gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -fPIC -O2 k.c -o k.so
>>  Undefined symbols:
>>    "_main", referenced from:
>>        start in crt1.10.5.o
>>  ld: symbol(s) not found
>
> It seems like older  OS X doesn't support the gcc -shared option:
> http://blog.yimingliu.com/2008/01/23/building-dynamic-library-on-os-x/
> The attached should avoid those tests on your platform.

Hi Padraig,

the patch looks good (at least on Linux).

Have a nice day,
Berny