Re: struct dirent d_type element

[Shigio Yamaguchi]

Hello,
> When I saw that I decided that it would be best to dispense with using
> d_type altogether. Fortunately, the lstat option is easily chosen to
> replace it; so I edited acinclude.m4 to remove the check for a d_type
> field in the declaration of struct dirent. gtags then came to life just
> fine!

Thank you for your detailed investigation.
I modified configure.ac instead of acinclude.m4 in CVS repository.

diff -r1.27 configure.ac
70,71c70,76
< AG_STRUCT_DP_D_NAMLEN
< AG_STRUCT_DP_D_TYPE
---
> dnl
> dnl In GNU/Linux, struct dirent has d_type but the value is always 0.
> dnl So, we decided not to use these macros for the time being.
> dnl
> dnl AG_STRUCT_DP_D_NAMLEN
> dnl AG_STRUCT_DP_D_TYPE
> dnl

By the way, I changed the default method to traverse directory tree
from dirent(3) to find(1) in GLOBAL-4.6.1. Installing the latest version,
above trouble will not occur.
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