Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 673
com_err.h in wrong directory or com_err man page wrong
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:48 EDT
The com_err man page declares #include <com_err.h> yet after an install this file is placed in /usr/include/et/com_err.h. As a result many files in the cyrus distrib. fail to compile (they reference it as the man page suggests). In a related item: the /usr/bin/compile_et script has a wrong directory assigned to ET_DIR causing this script to fail. The correct setting should be ET_DIR=/usr/share/et.
I have verified that these are true as reported. The script does fail complaining about not being able to find its template files which are located in /usr/share/et.
Fixed in dist-6.0 e2fsprogs-1.13-3 ------- Additional Comments From 10/22/99 22:46 ------- This was fixed in e2fsprogs 1.14, but because you guys fixed the bug by hacking the spec file to post-process the installed file, I didn't notice the fix. This was a really ugly way to fix things guys.... why didn't you use the RPM patch file facility. I do scan the redhat RPM looking for patches you may have applied, but I don't necessarily go looking for gross kludges located in the spec file. This is a problem since the kludge is still in the spec file in e2fsprogs-1.15-3, even though the shell script bug was long fixed. Lucky for you I noticed this while I was preparing my 1.16 release, so I noticed the man page problem. But I must say I'm pretty disappointed.... - Ted