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From: Duft Markus <Markus.Duft@×××××××.at>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] Interix coreutils -> df?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:31:15
Message-Id: 18597F2B47F1394A9B309945EC7241120165690C@servex01.wamas.com
1 Fabian Groffen <mailto:grobian@g.o> wrote:
2 > I got problems compiling coreutils, it keeps complaining that it can't
3 > determine how to read list of mounted file systems.
4
5 There is a patch fixing this in the tree.
6
7 >
8 > Now the ebuild seems to do some "working around broken headers", which
9 > I'm trying now, but I noticed the ebuild doesn't install df on
10 > Interix, as there is no way to get this list. However, I stumbled
11 > upon this patch:
12 > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@×××.org/msg06144.html
13
14 Yeah, i saw this a few days ago too, and it seems to work at another
15 location, so most probably it would be ok for gnulib, and fix coreutils
16 and finutils issues with this. I have to look into it.
17
18 > Seems to be some licence issue with it, I'm no lawyer but I feel like
19 > the patch is public domain/AS-IS, and they just want it to become GPL
20 > or something, so should not be a problem for us Gentoo people, right?
21
22 I don't thinks so. Also at that other location where i put it in, i just
23 took the concept of how to do it and wrote it on my own, so there should
24 be no problems, unless somebody patentet this :)
25
26 >
27 > Looks like that patch does indeed a trivial walk over /dev/fs, so
28 > shows some stupid information for df, which other utilities may get
29 > very happy from/with.
30
31 Yeah, i will fix this issues as soon as i have time.
32
33 Cheers, Markus
34
35 >
36 > --
37 > Fabian Groffen
38 > Gentoo on a different level
39
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