Re: [bug-patch] 2.7 CentOS compilation failure: ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS

[Andreas Grünbacher]

Karl,

2012/9/14 Karl Berry <address@hidden>:
> Hi Andreas,
>
>     is attr/libattr.h on CentOS 5.8 too old to define ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS?
>
> Evidently.  It's the current release of CentOS (5).  There is not much
> in /usr/include/attr/libattr.h (appended).
>
> I tried again with configure --disable-xattr and that went through fine.
> So I suppose the thing to do is have configure do that (disable-xattr)
> automatically if ATTR_ACTION_PERMISSIONS is not defined?

yes, that's probably the most sensible behavior; should be fixed in git.

Thanks,
Andreas