Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.5-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: origin-ubuntu maverick ubuntu-patch > > Hi Michael, > > The latest coreutils package FTBFS in Ubuntu on armel, powerpc, and sparc > due to a reproducible failure in the gnulib testsuite (test-linkat). We > haven't sorted out why the build failure was limited to these three > architectures, or why it didn't also affect Debian, but it's resolved by the > attached patch which corrects a missing header include that was noticed > while debugging. With the prototypes in place, the package again passes > the test suite on all architectures. So while the package isn't currently > failing to build in Debian, it might well do so in the future; and fixing > the missing prototypes is obviously correct, so I would suggest applying the > patch in Debian (and upstream) as well. > > The accompanying changelog entry for this patch is: > > [ John Rigby ] > * debian/patches/99_stat_prototype_for_linkat.dpatch: Add missing header > include for stat() prototype. LP: #591968.
Thanks. It was a problem in gnulib. I've applied the patch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=85b6cb48e0f3bbf83420d9d4cd2d49049da64a87 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
