Re: ls-mntd-fs.m4 fails to detect how to read list of mounted filesystems on Minix

[James Youngman]

According to http://minix1.woodhull.com/manpages/man5/fstab.5.html ...

     /etc/mtab contains lines of four fields.  The layout is:

          device    directory    type    options

     These fields may be explained as follows:

     device
          A block special device.

     directory
          Mount point.

     type
          Either 1, 2, or swap, indicating a V1 or a V2 file system,  or  swap
          space.

     options
          Either ro, or rw, indicating a read-only or read-write mounted  file
          system.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Forwarding a message that got bounced by the list filters for the
> uncompressed attachment being too large.
>
> Subject: ls-mntd-fs.m4 fails to detect how to read list of mounted
> filesystems on Minix
> From: Richard Yao <ryao AT gentoo.org>
> Date: 07/28/2012 12:13 AM
> To: address@hidden
>
> I used the following ISO to install Minix in KVM:
>
> http://www.minix3.org/iso/minix3_2_1_ide_20120622_f8c6b27.iso.bz2
>
> coreutils 8.16 and findutils 4.2.33 both fail to build on Minix with the
> following configure error:
>
> checking for next_dev... no
> checking for fs_stat_dev... no
> checking fs_info.h usability... no
> checking fs_info.h presence... no
> checking for fs_info.h... no
> checking for BEOS mounted file system support functions... no
> checking whether it is possible to resort to fread on /etc/mnttab... no
> configure: error: could not determine how to read list of mounted file
> systems
>
> Unfortunately, I am not familiar with what is failing. I have attached
> the config.log from coreutils 8.16.



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