Bug 478619

Summary: Augeas does not see /files on EPEL4
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale <arnaud.gomes>
Component: augeasAssignee: David Lutterkort <lutter>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: el4CC: apevec, hbrock, lutter
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strace -o /tmp/augeas.txt augtool quit
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Patch for building on GNU make < 3.81 none

Description Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 2009-01-02 10:08:45 UTC 
Description of problem:

The /files hierarchy in augeas does not exist on EL4 (works fine on EL5).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

augeas-0.3.5-1.el4

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. augtool ls /files
  
Actual results:

[root@swara ~]# augtool ls /files
[root@swara ~]#

Expected results:

[root@dedale ~]# augtool ls /files
etc/ = (none)
[root@dedale ~]#

Additional info:
Comment 1 David Lutterkort 2009-01-04 04:15:51 UTC 
Mysterious .. there was a similar bug report on the mailing list.

I need to set up a RHEL4 machine before I can try to reproduce that - in the meantime, it might help if you could run 'strace -o /tmp/augeas.txt augtool quit' and attach the file /tmp/augeas.txt to this bug (or email it to me)
Comment 2 Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 2009-01-04 10:52:12 UTC 
Created attachment 328130 [details]
strace -o /tmp/augeas.txt augtool quit

Here is the output of strace.
Comment 3 Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 2009-01-04 15:53:00 UTC 
I guess I have found the bug. The files src/Makefile.in and src/Makefile.am in the augeas sources contain the following line:

      echo '#define DATADIR "$(abspath $(datadir))"' > datadir.h1

This is used to define the path to the augeas/lenses subdirectory (${datadir}/augeas/lenses, that is /usr/share/augeas/lenses by default).

As far as I know, abspath has only been defined since GNU make 3.81; RHEL4 and its clones have version 3.80. So the search path becomes /augeas/lenses and obviously augtool find nothing there.
Comment 4 Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 2009-01-04 16:05:20 UTC 
Created attachment 328136 [details]
Patch for building on GNU make < 3.81

Rebuilding the package with this patch fixes the issue.
Comment 5 David Lutterkort 2009-01-05 04:37:25 UTC 
Nice work ... excellent find.

I committed your patch upstream and built augeas-0.3.5-2 for EL-4.

Please let me know if there are still issues.