proctools-0.4pre1 Compile error - fails to compile with coreutils +with_default_names

[mike@…]

Proctools fails to compile with coreutils built and installed with +with_default_names as GNU's tsort does not have the necessary "-q" option.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

So, don't use coreutils +with_default_names. I don't think there is a better solution.

[mike@…]

I disagree.

Possible solutions:

• Call /usr/bin/tsort rather than just tsort
• Don't use the -q option as it seems to just hide output and just pipe stdout to /dev/null instead
• Present a warning message to the user

I don't think doing nothing is the best option.

[(none)]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[akitada@…]

Thanks for the report. Would you provide a patch for this?

[mike@…]

Not sure exactly what to patch, it seems vaguely nontrivial. Might be worth just putting up a warning.

[dj_mook@…]

Temporarily deactivating coreutils to install procutils worked to get it installed.

It seems that if you want the specific behvaior of a system supplied tool you should explicitly reference it (/usr/bin/tsort). This is usually good scripting practice anyway when you are not sure of the environment you are being executed in.

[tobypeterson]

see #20748

[kenyon@…]

Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

#20748 is our solution to this, report a bug upstream if you'd like them to change what they do.