On Thursday 06 June 2002 23:48, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:28:24PM +0100, mark wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Sorry to waste peoples time, this is a Gentoo Linux configuration
> > problem.
>
> Hmm - thats not really fair on Gentoo. This is a workaround, but the
> underlying problem remains, and is not Gentoo related.
>
No, I was not blaming Gentoo at all, merely the way I had it configured. I
felt I should not have had an ACL flag if I wasnt using it.. The cp binary I
sent you was compiled using the ACL flag. I have just looked at the
changelog for fileutils under Gentoo and it has the following
03 May 2002; Daniel Robbins <drobbins@xxxxxxxxxx>: Added acl.c.diff to fix
compilation with nls disabled. Blocke is sending this fix upstream to
acl.bestbits.at. No rev bump -- no need for a recompile if it worked for
people.
The diff is as follows,
--- acl.c.orig Fri May 3 23:47:34 2002
+++ acl.c Fri May 3 23:47:43 2002
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
# include <libintl.h>
# define _(Text) gettext (Text)
#else
+# include <stddef.h>
# define _(Text) Text
#endif
If I'm honest I dont really understand this but it may help you to understand
why my cp binary is different. This patch was only applied if I set a flag
as ACL
> > Basically Gentoo builds all its apps from source using an 'ebuild'
> > script which controls the configure, make, make install. A fellow Gentoo
> > user has provided the solution There was a flag in one of my config
> > files which was causing cp to be built against acl in some way. Since I
> > had no real need of acl just removing this flag and rebuilding fileuttils
> > has solved the problem
> >
> > I am not saying there is a problem with acl or not, to be honest it is
> > not a subject I have spent any time learning about so it could be just
> > that I misconfigured xfs in some way. Anyway all seems fine now.
>
> You haven't misconfigured XFS - I'm able to reproduce this with the
> cp binary you sent me last night. It is definately a problem in
> ACL land, but not clear yet whether its XFS, libacl.so or the patch
> to fileutils which is causing it. I will keep trying to figure this
> out...
>
> thanks.
No probs. If I can provide further info let me know. Although I am now
getting out of my depth.
Mark
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