YA capset question - 9.4.3.b2 on Fedora

jm jm at hcn.com.au
Thu Jul 17 04:00:00 UTC 2008


I don't see the issue you're reporting on my F9 workstation (x86_64)

9.4.3.b2 compiles out of the box with a straight ./configure && make:

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make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/bin/check'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/bin'
making all in /usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc'
making all in /usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/arm
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/arm'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/arm'
making all in /usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/misc
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/misc'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/misc'
making all in /usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/xsl
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/xsl'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc/xsl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bind-9.4.3b2/doc'

real    0m44.449s
user    0m55.502s
sys    0m5.796s

[jm at jm390 bind-9.4.3b2]$ uname -a
Linux jm390 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 15:58:30 EDT 2008 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[jm at jm390 bind-9.4.3b2]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)


On 07/17/2008 09:34 AM, W Sanders wrote:
> I am trying to build 9.4.3b2 on Fedora 9, which does not have the commoncap or capability module.
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> However, I can successfully build 9.4.3.b2 on Fedora 6, which also does not have either the commoncap or capability module.
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> Both distros have a capset function, sys/capability.h, etc. Fedora 6 has only libcap.so.1, Fedora 9 has both libcap.so.1 and .2.
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> Has anyone successfully worked around this (other than by dumping Fedora as a useless distro?)
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> I don't see a way to ignore capset() in the configure process.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> -W Sanders
> http://wsanders.net
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