While tailf builds fine on other architectures, it relies on inotify to work properly. So for example on Debian architectures using Hurd or kFreeBSD tailf would work like a regular tail (with a non-functional -f option), which makes it quite redundant. This was caught by the util-linux testsuite. Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@xxxxxxxx> --- configure.ac | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index aae2456..eade79c 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1272,7 +1272,8 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_HEXDUMP], [test "x$build_hexdump" = xyes]) UL_BUILD_INIT([rev], [yes]) AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_REV], [test "x$build_rev" = xyes]) -UL_BUILD_INIT([tailf], [yes]) +UL_BUILD_INIT([tailf], [check]) +UL_REQUIRES_LINUX([tailf]) AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_TAILF], [test "x$build_tailf" = xyes]) -- 2.0.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
