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coreutils on Solaris 10(x86) 09/10

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc: Clemens Brogi <c.brogi <at> mid.de>, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, 7142 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: bug#7142: coreutils on Solaris 10(x86) 09/10
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:42:18 -0600

[adding bug-gnulib]

On 10/04/2010 01:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Does the following patch to lib/openat.h fix the problem for you?
>
> --- old/lib/openat.h	2010-04-23 06:44:00.000000000 -0700
> +++ new/lib/openat.h	2010-10-04 12:36:16.924755978 -0700
> @@ -94,21 +94,16 @@
>   }
>
>   #if GNULIB_FACCESSAT
> -/* For now, there are no wrappers named laccessat or leuidaccessat,
> +/* These are macros, not inline functions, so that special libraries
> +   such as -lgen are not needed unless the macros are invoked.
> +
> +   For now, there are no wrappers named laccessat or leuidaccessat,
>      since gnulib doesn't support faccessat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) and
>      since access rights on symlinks are of limited utility.  */
>
> -static inline int
> -accessat (int fd, char const *file, int mode)
> -{
> -  return faccessat (fd, file, mode, 0);
> -}
> +# define accessat(fd, file, mode) faccessat (fd, file, mode, 0)

Bingo - looks like a plausible root cause!  In which case, the change to 
coreutils' src/Makefile.am is not necessary.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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