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[BUG] Non-portable Construct Introduced in diagnose.c (dirent) at v2.38.0-rc0

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rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2022, 23:04 UTC
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The dirent d_type field is not available on every system. This was introduced at 2.38.0-rc0 in diagnose.c

diagnose.c, line 79: error(1565): struct "dirent" has no field "d_type"
  		    e->d_type == DT_DIR && strlen(e->d_name) == 2 &&
(3 more issues in diagnose exist of this form).

The code should use the NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT knob to detect whether this is an existing field as defined in cache.h.

This change breaks the build on NonStop systems (at least). I'm sorry I missed this during review.

Randall

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  1. rsbecker@nexbridge.comSep 16, 2022
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