From: Lyman Opie <jf02ir@gmail.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: May I help you to fix the source code for util-linux?
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 20:23:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGLH8RSpmqZJOvcO+1so1zz4q9cs5GyEtGL9oZ8as0tAemCo8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Dear friends who have worked on the util-linux source code,
Thank you for the util-linux package.
I'm an M.I.T. graduate, who has been compiling linux source code for
almost as long it has existed. A problem has crept into the
util-linux source code:
When I run its "configure" script, it eventually fails, reporting
error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
The lack of sanity is not in cpp, but in the configure script, which
calls cpp with a command line tens of thousands of characters long,
which consists almost entirely of thousands of repetitions of the
command-line arguments "-D _GNU_SOURCE".
I am looking into a way to fix this, but perhaps someone who is
already familiar with the source code can tell me immediately how this
might be fixed?
If someone has a chance to email me, I'd be pleased to hear from you.
I thank you kindly for reading.
Very truly yours,
Lyman Opie
lyman@alum.mit.edu
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2023-07-06 0:23 Lyman Opie [this message]
2023-07-06 0:57 ` May I help you to fix the source code for util-linux? Bruce Dubbs
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