re: pkg/57145: gmake: *** INTERNAL: readdir: Operation not supported. Stop.

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

> > this is a gmake bug.  it checks errno after readdir() but readdir() is
> > not expected to set/clear errno for 'end of dir' condition, and thus
> > converts some prior random error into a readdir error.
>
> Not a gmake bug.  readdir is required to preserve errno in the

yes - the call in gmake always sets errno = 0 before calling
readdir, but it's via a macro and i missed this.

i *thought* the bug was not setting errno = 0 before.

> Can you share your reproducer for this?  Maybe we can adapt it to an
> atf test.

"use pkgsrc, see this failure every few weeks or so".


.mrg.