Pádraig Brady wrote:
Drats. It looks like the coreutils source repo will need something like:
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 7def1f9..30ce621 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
regex
remove
rename
+ renameat
rmdir
root-dev-ino
rpmatch
Yes, that looks like the right fix. Sorry about that.
diff src/force-link.c src/force-link.c.OEM
86,93d85
< /* see: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rename&sektion=2 */
< static int
< renameat(int fromfd,const char *from,int tofd,const char *to)
< {
< return rename(from,to);
< }
I've not analysed whether that will work (in all cases).
It should be an adequate workaround for coreutils. I'd rather fix it the right
way, though, as the module is intended for more-general use.