Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.6.63-addb6

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>                        Passed     Skipped     Failed
>>>                   \---------------------------------
>>> Fedora core 5 x86 |       352          43          1
>>> Fedora 11 x86     |       351          45          0
>>> Solaris 10 x86    |       334          62          0
>>> Solaris 9  x86    |       331          64          1
>>
>> Thanks for the testing!
>>
>>> FC5 test failure:
>>>   ln/hard-to-sym
>>>     ln -P -L symlink3 hard-to-a
>>>       ln: creating hard link `hard-to-a' => `symlink3': Invalid argument
>>
>> This is a new test, but FC5 is soooo old,
>> that I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.
>
> March 2006?

The failure is probably a function of the kernel.
Which is it?

>>> Solaris builds fail with:
>>>   Undefined                       first referenced
>>>    symbol                             in file
>>>   eaccess                             ../lib/libcoreutils.a(euidaccess.o)
>>
>> Can you look into why that failed?
>> I have just reconfirmed that the build succeeds for me on Solaris 10.
>
> Hrm 7.6 builds fine here.
>
> But with the latest snapshot the linker here looks like
> it needs $LIB_EACCESS for all binaries.
> I notice that euidaccess() is newly referenced by faccessat.c
> Could that be the cause?

I wonder why it works for me and not for you.