backport skipping selinux

Author: oech3

.github/workflows/GnuTests.yml

@@ -63,15 +63,19 @@ jobs:
         git submodule sync --recursive
         git config submodule.gnulib.url https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib.git
         git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
+        # Backport auto-skip for SELinux progs
+        # Drop this at coreutils 9.9
+        curl https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/8ba47d09a33f0740e071a8394f3504e0fb57948e.patch -o skip-selinux.patch
+        patch -Np1 -i skip-selinux.patch
       working-directory: gnu
 
-    #### Build environment setup
+    #### Build environment setup without libselinux
     - name: Install dependencies
       shell: bash
       run: |
         ## Install dependencies
         sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install -y autoconf autopoint bison texinfo gperf gcc g++ gdb python3-pyinotify jq valgrind libexpect-perl libacl1-dev libattr1-dev libcap-dev libselinux1-dev attr quilt
+        sudo apt-get install -y autoconf autopoint bison texinfo gperf gcc g++ gdb python3-pyinotify jq valgrind libexpect-perl libacl1-dev libattr1-dev libcap-dev attr quilt
     - name: Add various locales
       shell: bash
       run: |
@@ -158,6 +162,9 @@ jobs:
     name: Run GNU tests (SELinux)
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
+    - name: Install libselinux
+      shell: bash
+      run: sudo apt-get install -y libselinux1-dev
     #### Get the code, setup cache
     - name: Checkout code (uutils)
       uses: actions/checkout@v5
@@ -225,7 +232,7 @@ jobs:
     ### Build
     - name: Build binaries
       run: |
-        lima bash -c "cd ~/work/uutils/ && bash util/build-gnu.sh --release-build"
+        env SELINUX_ENABLED=1 lima bash -c "cd ~/work/uutils/ && bash util/build-gnu.sh --release-build"
 
     ### Run tests as user
     - name: Generate SELinux tests list

util/build-gnu.sh

@@ -105,12 +105,7 @@ echo "UU_BUILD_DIR='${UU_BUILD_DIR}'"
 
 cd "${path_UUTILS}" && echo "[ pwd:'${PWD}' ]"
 
-# Check for SELinux support
-if [ "$(uname)" == "Linux" ]; then
-    # Only attempt to enable SELinux features on Linux
-    export SELINUX_ENABLED=1
-    CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS="${CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS} selinux"
-fi
+[ "$SELINUX_ENABLED" -eq 1 ] && CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS="${CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS} selinux"
 
 # Trim leading whitespace from feature flags
 CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS="$(echo "${CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS}" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')"
@@ -133,8 +128,6 @@ else
     quilt push -a || { echo "Failed to apply patches"; exit 1; }
 fi
 cd -
-# Add missing SELINUX_PROGS for tests
-cargo build --profile="${UU_MAKE_PROFILE}" -p uu_runcon #-p uu_chcon
 # Pass the feature flags to make, which will pass them to cargo
 "${MAKE}" PROFILE="${UU_MAKE_PROFILE}" CARGOFLAGS="${CARGO_FEATURE_FLAGS}"
 touch g