[Clfs-dev] Final System Test Suites

[Martin Ward]

On 15/10/12 22:00, Chris Staub wrote:
> 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.
>
I agree
I symlinked that and login.access, as i install everything in tools, 
only symlinks in the final system, which get overwritten as and when
>> 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
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regards

Martin