Re: Building portions of coreutils

[NightStrike]

On 2/2/08, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
> > That way, the configure tests that fail won't affect me.
> >
> > To be even more precise, I want to see how many of the core utils I
> > can get to natively compile for x86_64-pc-mingw32 using the new
> > compiler I just built.
>
> I think that you should be able to override the configure tests for
> things that are not working.  Some useful information may be available
> in instructions for cross compiling.
>
> Usually what I have done is simply to read through and understand the
> configure tests that are failing and at that point the variables that
> need to be set are revealed.  Then hack on the config.h file as
> needed.  It is a blunt approach but as they say, brute force and
> ignorance will always triumph over elegance and finesse.


I found this in ls-mntd-fs.m4:

if test -z "$ac_list_mounted_fs"; then
  AC_MSG_ERROR([could not determine how to read list of mounted file systems])
  # FIXME -- no need to abort building the whole package
  # Can't build mountlist.c or anything that needs its functions
fi


So in theory, I could edit it here, yes?