[PATCH] Incorrect Haskell type for ino_t on MacOS X 10.5

[PHO]

I found a strange problem that System.Posix.Internals.fdStat reporting st_ino == 0 for any file. That was because __hscore_st_ino was assuming ino_t to be uint64_t while CIno being inferred to be Word32.

Here is my  patch to fix this:

git fetch git://github.com/phonohawk/packages-base.git darwin-htype-ino_t

[simonmar]

I'm suspicious of this fix. If configure is finding the wrong type for st_ino, then that looks like a bug in autoconf. The configure script for base already has this:

# Enable large file support. Do this before testing the types ino_t, off_t, and
# rlim_t, because it will affect the result of that test.
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

If this isn't working properly, we need to find out why and inform the autoconf folks if necessary.

[PHO]

You are right. This was indeed an autoconf bug so I sent a patch to the autoconf folks:  AC_SYS_LARGEFILE: define _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE conditionally

[PHO]

I updated my  patch for a temporary workaround but I think it shouldn't be merged as it will (hopefully) be soon unnecessary.

[simonmar]

Great, thanks for following this up.