Re: mutt/2174: Can't build 1.5.11 under cygwin
The following reply was made to PR mutt/2174; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"'Mutt Developers'" <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>
Cc:
Subject: RE: mutt/2174: Can't build 1.5.11 under cygwin
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:47:12 -0600
> From: owner-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of miki.tebeka@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 7:18 AM
> To: Mutt Developers
> Subject: mutt/2174: Can't build 1.5.11 under cygwin
>
> >Number: 2174
> >Notify-List:
> >Category: mutt
> >Synopsis: Can't build 1.5.11 under cygwin
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: mutt-dev
> >State: open
> >Keywords:
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: net
> >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 31 14:18:10 +0100 2006
> >Originator: Miki Tebeka
> >Release: 1.5.11
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> Cygwin
> >Description:
> Compling mutt 1.5.11 under cygwin fails.
> The error is:
> mh.c:742: error: structure has no member named `d_ino'
>
> In /usr/include/sys/dirent.h there is a comment:
> unsigned __invalid_ino32; /* DO NOT USE: No
> longer available since cygwin 1.5.19 */
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Try to compile mutt under cygwin
> >Fix:
> Change in line 742 from
> de->d_ino
> to
> de->__invalid_d_ino
> >Add-To-Audit-Trail:
>
> >Unformatted:
That's not really a fix though. Windows (and from what I understand several
Unii, and/or Unii on particular filesystems) don't have a useful concept of
a "d_ino". The Cygwin one that was there was faked (a hash of the file path
or some such), and was removed in the interest of performance and/or sanity.
I'll check on this, but I don't even think it's POSIX to rely on this being
meaningful. A Cygwin-(et al)-specific fix would involve eliminating the use
of this field.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle