On 15/07/15 04:10, Peter Bray wrote: > Greetings, > > In attempting to build coreutils-8.24 on Sun Solaris 10 Update 8 and > Oracle Solaris 10 Update 11 (both X86 VMs where the OS is unpatched), > I found that the GNU coreutils sync(1) command would not link, failing > to find the symbol 'fdatasync'. > > Investigations show that "configure" correctly detects that > fdatasync() is found in -lrt, the $(LIB_FDATASYNC) make variable has > the correct value. It is just not used in the building of sync(1). > > The solution seems simple enough, the addition of $(LIB_FDATASYNC) to > the "src_sync_LDADD" line of the Makefile. This change has been tested > on both releases of Solaris 10 mentioned above and Oracle Solaris 11.2 > were the change is not needed (as LIB_FDATASYNC value is the empty > string). That is, fdatasync() is no longer in -lrt on Solaris 11.2 > > The proper solution would be to update "Makefile.in" (identical > change) or more likely "src/local.mk" (identical change), but as these > systems do not yet have autotools, I have not developed or tested a > final solution. Given the trivial nature of the change, I hope this > will not be an impediment to its acceptance.
I've pushed this in your name: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d25971 Interestingly I didn't hit the issue on a Solaris 10 Update 10 system. thanks! Pádraig.
