bug#45716: Bug in ‘network-interface-names’ when building guix for aarch64 on x86_64.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

>>(define ifreq-struct-size
>>  ;; 'struct ifreq' begins with an array of IF_NAMESIZE bytes containing the
>>  ;; interface name (nul-terminated), followed by a bunch of stuff.  This is
>>  ;; its size in bytes.
>>  (if (= 8 (sizeof '*))
>>      40
>>      32))
>
> I think that should rather be (sizeof* '*) instead of (sizeof '*).  Ludo?

As you found out, it makes no difference.  What changes is that
‘sizeof*’ is a compile-time computation (but it honors cross-compilation
targets) whereas ‘sizeof’ is a call made at run time.

Ludo’.