Re: build failure of glob module on NetBSD: request for member ‘dd_fd’...

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/21/22 00:41, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> glob.c:1361:21: error: request for member ‘dd_fd’ in something not a structure 
> or
> union

Thanks for reporting that. That's due to a bug in NetBSD 9.2's 
implementation of dirfd. It's not implemented as a function (which is a 
bug in and of itself; POSIX says it must work even if you #undef it), 
and its macro doesn't work with a void * argument (where a function 
would work).

A good way to fix this would be to modify the dirfd module to work 
around the NetBSD bugs. I took the easy way out, though, and simply 
documented the bugs and modified glob to not run afoul of the bugs, by 
installing the attached patch into Gnulib.

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