[bug-gnulib] Re: HP-UX (PA-RISC and Itanium) getmntent problems

[James Youngman]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:20:11PM -0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> Recent problem reports from a couple of testers of the latest GNU
> findutils release turned up configure-time failures on HP-UX 11 on
> both PA-RISC and Itanium hardware:
> 
> >> ...
> >> checking for sys/fs_types.h... no
> >> checking for struct fsstat.f_fstypename... no
> >> checking for getmntent in -lsun... no
> >> checking for getmntent in -lseq... no
> >> checking for getmntent in -lgen... yes
> >> checking for getmntent... yes
> >> checking for listmntent of Cray/Unicos-9... no
> >> checking for mntctl function and struct vmount... no
> >> checking for one-argument getmntent function... no

This is the actual location of the failure, I believe.  HP-UX has the
single-argument form of getmntent(), so this test should pass.


> >> configure:12622: checking for BEOS mounted file system support functions
> >> configure:12631: result: no
> >> configure:12645: checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on 
> >> /etc/mnttab
> >> configure:12658: c89 -E  conftest.c
> >> "conftest.c", line 93: error #2005: could not open source file "mnttab.h"
> >>   #include <mnttab.h>
> >>                      ^
> >> 
> >> 1 error detected in the compilation of "conftest.c".


It's true that this doesn't compile, but we should have to resort to
trying this alternative.

James.