On 05/02/2026 11:50, Richard Lloyd via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
I am building coreutils 9.10 on HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium) and that system doesn't
have SELinux support. While some code in coreutils 9.10 is surrounded by
a check for SELinux support, two source files in particular make multiple
SELinux calls without any such check: src/copy.c and src/mkfifo.c.
Even the inclusion of <selinux/selinux.h> or <selinux/label.h> is done
unconditionally in both src/copy.c and src/mkfifo.c, despite lib/config.h
being generated with a definitions (or not) of HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H and
HAVE_SELINUX_LABEL_H. To get the code to compile on
HP-UX, I added a #if HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H...#endif or
#if HAVE_SELINUX_LABEL_H...#endif around any SELinux-related
code. I've included the patch to do this below.
Hi Richard.
I'm a bit confused at the build failure as gnulib
is supposed to provide stub selinux headers and libs when not available.
For example 9.10 compiles fine for v9.10 on Solaris.
There I have this configuration:
solaris11$ grep SELINUX lib/config.h
/* #undef HAVE_SELINUX_CONTEXT_H */
/* #undef HAVE_SELINUX_FLASK_H */
/* #undef HAVE_SELINUX_LABEL_H */
/* #undef HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H */
#define USE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H 0
Also I'm wondering why you're not seeing the same issue with
id.c, install.c, mkdir.c, mknod.c, stat.c
thanks,
Padraig
