On 07/21/11 02:16, Herb Wartens wrote: > OSX does have fdatasync defined as part of the libsystem_kernel.dylib library. > The problem is that there is no header on OSX that actually provides the > function.
Thanks again for reporting this. What is the exact symptom of failure here? If 'configure' successfully linked to fdatasync, then presumably coreutils can link to it too. So presumably your compiler complained about the missing declaration. But did it go ahead and use fdatasync anyway? If so, we're done: you can just ignore the diagnostic. If not, perhaps 'configure' should check that fdatasync is declared (and not just linkable too), and use fdatasync only if it is declared; that would be more-conservative. Have you checked, via "grep -r fdatasync /usr/include/", whether fdatasync is actually present anywhere? It might be declared only if some other symbol is #define'd, in which case, we should find out what that is and #define it.
