Re: coreutils vs. NetBSD 2.0D and above

[Paul Eggert]

Matthias Scheler <address@hidden> writes:

> "coreutils" doesn't build with NetBSD 2.0D and above before statfs(2)
> has been replaced with statvfs(2). The reasons are that "coreutils"
> blindly uses "struct statfs *" instead of "struct statvfs *" as argument
> to getmntinfo(3) and that the "configure" scripts assumes that
> "f_fstypename" can only be in "struct statfs" but not in "struct statvfs".
> I can provide patches for "lib/mountlist.c" and "src/stat.c" which
> arround this problem but I think it would be better to fix the correct
> the autoconfiguration assumptions.

How about if you send in the patches that you have to bug-coreutils?
They might help explain things a bit better.