Re: Coreutils 6.7 build error and patch

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 12 February 2007, VinX wrote:
> gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -g -O2 -MT utimens.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/utimens.Tpo
> -c -o utimens.o utimens.c
> utimens.c: In function `futimens':
> utimens.c:117: warning: implicit declaration of function `futimesat'
> utimens.c:117: error: `AT_FDCWD' undeclared (first use in this function)
> utimens.c:117: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> utimens.c:117: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [utimens.o] Error 1
> ---
> My system is a gentoo with:
> - glibc 2.5
> - coreutils 6.7
> - linux-headers 2.6.20

open a bug in the Gentoo bugzilla ... last time someone hit an error like this 
with AT_FDCWD, their system was broken because they were messing around with 
glibc

> I build a little patch (attached in this mail) to fix this error, now it
> seems to be ok!

the attached patch is not ok ... need to figure out what's going wrong with 
your configure / system libc
-mike

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