Re: [bug-gnulib] stat and lstat should define their replacements

[Paul Eggert]

Derek Price <address@hidden> writes:

> +/* Get the system versions when something else was defined by config.h.  */
> +#undef lstat
> +#undef stat

A big worry here is hosts that use something like "#define stat
stat64" when compiled in large-file mode.  On such hosts, you can't
#undef 'stat' and 'lstat' as you'll then get the small-file functions.
This may help to explain the infelicity in this area of gnulib.

An example of such a system would be Solaris 10 compiled with GCC 3.

GCC 4 fixes the problem on Solaris 10 -- at least, that's how I read
the GCC source code and Solaris headers; I haven't tested it.  Support
for this was added on 2004-06-20 by Zack Weinberg, if you want to
peruse GCC's ChangeLog entries.

However, obviously we'd still need to support older Solaris
installations, , and I suspect that the problem persists on some
non-Solaris hosts.