Re: pkg/57074: sysutils/pv fails to build on modern MacOS, tries to use stat64

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57074; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	dns%strangeloop.cc@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/57074: sysutils/pv fails to build on modern MacOS, tries to
 use stat64
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 21:22:24 +0000

 On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:05:01PM +0000, dns%strangeloop.cc@localhost wrote:
  >  I could not easily get around the detection of HAVE_STAT64 (autoconf 
  >  defines this from successful compilation of function stat64(2)) but by 
  >  using this "64_BIT_NODE" macro, defined on modern (Mac OSX 10.5 or 
  >  higher) systems, this will ignore HAVE_STAT64 and fallback to the 
  >  default behaviour of other OS's, which is to "define stat64 stat" and 
  >  hence fix the code.
 
 I think if we can't get the configure test to generate the right
 answer we're better off suppressing it directly rather than using a
 different and only semi-related predefined symbol (which might change
 in the future) to avoid using the results.
 
 So I think I'll go with the original makefile change we can reexamine
 later if necessary.
 
 
 (sorry it took six months to respond)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost