Re: failing SIGNATURE_CHECK's due to undefined types

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

>  2010-01-06  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
> 
> +       dirent: fix test failure
> +       * lib/dirent.in.h (includes): Guarantee ino_t.
> +       Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
> +

Here's an addendum to update the documentation:


2010-01-07  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        dirent: Document the last fix.
        * doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi: Document the bug of missing 'ino_t'.

--- doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi.orig  Thu Jan  7 23:18:21 2010
+++ doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi       Thu Jan  7 23:17:04 2010
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
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+The type @code{ino_t} is missing on some platforms:
+glibc 2.8 and others.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
--- lib/dirent.in.h.orig        Thu Jan  7 23:18:21 2010
+++ lib/dirent.in.h     Thu Jan  7 23:17:51 2010
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #ifndef _GL_DIRENT_H
 #define _GL_DIRENT_H
 
-/* Grab ino_t.  */
+/* Get ino_t.  Needed on some systems, including glibc 2.8.  */
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 /* The definition of GL_LINK_WARNING is copied here.  */