Re: removing "su" from coreutils [Re: Fwd: [PULL] su

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 25 May 2012 18:09:18 +0900, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> hmmm, is "utils-linux" stuff that has dependencies on linux-specific 
> interfaces?

A bunch of it is, but they do have autoconf checks for these features,
and a configure run ends as follows, for example:

    [...]
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build libmount
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build mount
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build losetup
    configure: WARNING: libmount disabled; do not build fsck
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build partx
    configure: WARNING: libmount disabled; do not build mountpoint
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build fallocate
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build unshare
    checking for crc32 in -lz... yes
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build swapon
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build lsblk
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build lscpu
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build chcpu
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build wdctl
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build prlimit
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build lslocks
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build switch_root
    checking for syscall pivot_root... no
    configure: WARNING: Unable to detect syscall pivot_root.
    configure: WARNING: pivot_root syscall not found; do not build pivot_root
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build kill
    configure: WARNING: non-linux system; do not build raw
    checking for syscall ioprio_set... no
    configure: WARNING: Unable to detect syscall ioprio_set.
    configure: WARNING: ioprio_set syscall not found; do not build ionice
    checking for syscall sched_getaffinity... no
    configure: WARNING: Unable to detect syscall sched_getaffinity.
    configure: WARNING: sched_getaffinity syscall not found; do not build 
taskset
    [...]


Grüße,
 Thomas

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