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FTBFS with glibc-2.16 (due to outdated gnulib)

Bug #1081220 reported by Wookey on 2012-11-20

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	coreutils (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

coreutils doesn't build against eglibc due to outdated gnulib referring to gets which has been removed in this release.

This patch fixes that in a fairly simple-minded manner.

A better fix is a new upstream release with a newer gnulib. the 8.20 in Debian unstable is such a release. (That version needs a different fix to cross-build)

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Wookey (wookey) wrote on 2012-11-20:

coreutils-8.13-3.2ubuntu2-glibc-2.16-FTBFSfix.patch Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-11-20:

The attachment "coreutils-8.13-3.2ubuntu2-glibc-2.16-FTBFSfix.patch" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch in the form of a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-11-22:

This was already fixed independently in raring.

coreutils (8.13-3.2ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * Add debian/tests/: autopkgtest for running a subset of the upstream tests
    against the system installed binaries. The other upstream tests need a
    built tree, and are run during package build. (LP: #1073445)
  * Add 01_gnulib-gets.dpatch: Avoid assuming that gets is declared in bundled
    gnulib. Backported from upstream gnulib SVN to fix FTBFS.

-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:21:20 +0100