Re: sepgsql contrib module

On 02/14/2011 08:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Yeah. The next thing I hit was this:
>> [andrew(at)aurelia sepgsql]$ make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
>> sepgsql-regtest.pp
>> cat: /selinux/mls: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `sepgsql-regtest.pp'. Stop.
>> [andrew(at)aurelia sepgsql]$
> Hmph. A build with --with-selinux goes through for me on a
> pretty-vanilla Fedora 13 installation (at least the build and install
> steps, I dunno how to test it).
>
> It looks to me like /selinux/mls is some weird phony-filesystem file,
> because "cat" prints one character (a "1") while "ls" claims the file is
> of zero length. So it's probably something consed up by the kernel,
> like /proc/. Do you have selinux enabled on your machine?

Np, but that really shouldn't be a build requirement, ISTM, even if it
is a test requirement.

> (BTW, testing what seems to be a kernel-configuration-reporting flag at
> build time strikes me as pretty awful design.)
>
>

Yeah, I agree.

cheers

andrew