Re: policy build failure

[Michael Thomas <wart kobold org>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 16:00 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > Wart wrote:
> > > I just tried rebuilding the policy files for a package that I am 
> > > working on (cyphesis), and started getting this syntax error in Rawhide:
> > >
> > > % make NAME=strict -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
> > > cat: /selinux/mls: No such file or directory
> > > Compiling strict cyphesis module
> > > tmp/all_interfaces.conf:7820:ERROR 'syntax error' at token 'allow' on 
> > > line 3871:
> > >
> > > allow staff_evolution_alarm_t staff_t:fifo_file { getattr write };
> > > /usr/bin/checkmodule:  error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
> > > /usr/bin/checkmodule:  loading policy configuration from tmp/cyphesis.tmp
> > Why don't you have /selinux/mls?
>
> SELinux disabled on the build host?  Or building in a chroot that
> doesn't have selinuxfs mounted?

The latter.  I'm building in the mock chroot environment.  I'm not 
concerned about the missing /selinux/mls error, as that doesn't seem 
prevent the build from finishing.  I've always seen this error when 
building in mock.  The real problem is the new syntax error when 
compiling the module.

--Wart