Fwd: 'make check' failure with coreutils-8.2

[Chris Clayton]

Added address@hidden, which I missed on the reply below...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chris Clayton <address@hidden>
Date: 2009/12/12
Subject: Re: 'make check' failure with coreutils-8.2
To: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>


2009/12/12 Jim Meyering <address@hidden>:
> Chris Clayton wrote:
>> I've just built coreutils-8.2 and make check fails and asks for a report to 
>> this mail address.
>> configure is run thusly:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-acl --disable-rpath --disable-nls 
>> --disable-xattr
> ...
>
> Thanks for the report.  What type of system are you using? (uname -a)

It's a linux system running 2.6.32. Somehow, the kernel was set up to
build without inotify support for userland. My 2.6.31 kernel has
inotify support, so I've no idea how it got switched off.

> That failure means that your system's kernel lacks inotify support
> and that test failed to account for the possibility.
>
> Can you confirm that the patch below solves the problem?
>

Yes, the patch allows the coreutils build to complete with the
inotify-less kernel. I've rebuilt and installed my kernel too :-)

Thanks Jim.

Chris

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