Bug 90799

Summary:	MSG: configure should indicate the suggested coreutils version if the "ln --relative" check fails
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	krichter722
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description krichter722 2015-06-01 10:51:10 UTC

This can be avoided by installing coreutils 8.23 from source. It'd be nice to check the version of the installed and figure out the necessary version of coreutils and provide a more helpful error message.

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Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2015-06-08 16:52:26 UTC

Well, we ultimately don't care which implementation is used, as long as it supports --relative...

That said, I'd be willing to merge a patch that extends the error and suggests to use at least coreutils 8.23.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2018-03-19 22:30:07 UTC

Fixed by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8408

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