Re: configure: error: ... list of mounted file systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Hello, bug-coreutils,
>
> coreutils-6.7/configure is failing on z/OS v1r7:
> [snip]
> checking for listmntent... no
> checking for getmntinfo... no
> checking for sys/ucred.h... yes
> checking for sys/mount.h... (cached) yes
> checking mntent.h usability... yes
> checking mntent.h presence... no
> checking for mntent.h... no
> checking for sys/fs_types.h... (cached) no
> checking for struct fsstat.f_fstypename... no
> checking for library containing getmntent... no
> checking for getmntent... no
> checking for listmntent of Cray/Unicos-9... no
> checking for mntctl function and struct vmount... no
> checking for getfsstat function... no
> checking for FIXME existence of three headers... no
> checking for getmntinfo function... no
> checking for getmnt function... no
> checking for next_dev... no
> checking for fs_stat_dev... no
> checking fs_info.h usability... yes
> checking fs_info.h presence... no
> checking for fs_info.h... no
> checking for BEOS mounted file system support functions... no
> checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on /etc/mnttab... no
> configure: error: could not determine how to read list of mounted file systems
>
> Any suggestion for circumventing this?  I really only want to build
> md5sum.

On the last at-least-two platforms (NSK and Interix) where I have had to 
fix configure so this was a non-fatal error (note: you will also have to 
fix Makefile to not build things like du that need the fs list), I just 
edited configure to make this test non-fatal. Look for 'could not 
determine ...' and change the script to remove the exit's when this happens.

Can we please get this fixed, someone? We're up to at-least-three 
platforms this affects.

--
Matthew
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