Call for testing Cygwin snapshot (d_ino)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Dec 19 03:40:00 GMT 2005


Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
> 
>>The code that causes this error should be :
>>
>>-------------------------------------------
>>#if defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)
>>// Posix does not require that the d_ino field be present, and some
>>// systems do not provide it.
>>#   define REAL_DIR_ENTRY(dp) 1
>>#else
>>#   define REAL_DIR_ENTRY(dp) (dp->d_ino != 0)
>>#endif
>>-------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>No.  In fact, I'll change that field to "__invalid_d_ino" just to
>>make it clearer that there is nothing there.
>>
>>You should not be using it at all
> 
> 
> 
> Then , I should use : 
> 
>      #   define REAL_DIR_ENTRY(dp) 1
> 
> ?
> 
> (i.e. as    #if defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)  section of the above code?)


AFAICS, ROOT uses configure to determine the available capabilities.  So
just rerun configure as recommended by the provided package docs.  Doing
so should result in d_ino not being found and appropriate actions/settings
made.  If that's not the case, you want to contact the ROOT maintainer.


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