Re: Is statfs() still supposed to be in libc?

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:29:18AM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> 
> While upgrading ncbi-blast+, I looked deeper into a workaround for a
> statfs() issue.  The blast configure script incorrectly determines that
> statfs() is supported on NetBSD, when in reality is was deprecated and
> removed from the API a long time ago, superseded by statvfs().
> 
> However, the statfs() function is still in libc and this is all the
> configure script checks for.
> 
> Is statfs() still needed internally, or should it be removed from libc at
> this point?

If the configure script is a real autoconf script, maybe this might help?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/afa82ae805f9c8bb875a3f863a7b4669953f159f


Cheers,

Patrick