source: trunk/essentials/app-arch/tar/m4/unlinkdir.m4

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1#serial 4
2
3# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4#
5# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
6# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
7# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
8
9# Written by Paul Eggert.
10
11AC_DEFUN([gl_UNLINKDIR],
12[
13 AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
14 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE(priv.h)
15
16 AC_LIBOBJ([unlinkdir])
17
18 # The Hurd, the Linux kernel, the FreeBSD kernel version 2.2 and later,
19 # and Cygwin never let anyone (even root) unlink directories.
20 # If anyone knows of another system for which unlink can never
21 # remove a directory, please report it to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
22 # Unfortunately this is difficult to test for, since it requires root access
23 # and might create garbage in the file system,
24 # so the code below simply relies on the kernel name and version number.
25 case $host in
26 *-*-gnu[0-9]* | \
27 *-*-linux-* | *-*-linux | \
28 *-*-freebsd2.2* | *-*-freebsd[3-9]* | *-*-freebsd[1-9][0-9]* | \
29 *-cygwin)
30 AC_DEFINE([UNLINK_CANNOT_UNLINK_DIR], 1,
31 [Define to 1 if unlink (dir) cannot possibly succeed.]);;
32 esac
33])
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