[Clfs-dev] Final System Test Suites

[Chris Staub]

On 10/15/2012 04:44 PM, William Harrington wrote:
> Hello CLFS community,
>
> We have an issue that needs to be addressed.
>
> Util-linux used to provide su, which we used when testing coreutils.
>
> We've always installed and used shadow's su, and shadow is installed
> after coreutils, and we can't use that su as of right now, unless we
> test coreutils after installing shadow.
>
> I was thinking, maybe when building coreutils, add to the instructions
> to extract shadow's su src file and build it to use for the test suite
> phase of coreutils. I haven' t tested this, and I'm coming up with ideas
> on a whim.

I tried that, but you'd really be better off configuring and compiling 
all of Shadow - as su would need various other headers and stuff - and 
cp'ing the su binary. Though, even when I tried installing all of Shadow 
into /tools, it still failed - according to message on the LFS mailing 
lists, it seems to require /etc/login.defs - just having 
/tools/etc/login.defs doesn't work, even when --prefix=/tools, though of 
course that might be fixed by editing the source somehow.

> We can move shadow before coreutils. I'm not sure how much of the final
> system it needs before being built. I think one time I did build shadow
> before coreutils and didn't see anyting weird, but really all we need is
> su at that point.

Yeah, that should work.

> Any input is greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington