Re: Has sys/stat.h changed

[Brian Keener <bkeener at thesoftwaresource dot com>]

I think I am just going to give up trying to understand what is going on 
with this and simply apply Corinna's patch and wait for a corrected gcc 
and sys/stat.h.  I have tried to understand Chris and Earnies comments in 
this thread and I also have been watching the discussion between Rueben 
Thomas  and Earnie Boyd in the thread titled:

 mingw > 20001111: fstat bug: buffer overflow? 
 
All I know is I brought everything current and the use of st_size gives 
me a problem and setup crashes immediately after that.  All I do is a 
make - no flags.  I rolled just gcc back to 2.95.2-5 and the same 
results.  I then rolled just gcc back to 2.95.2-2 and then when I try to 
compile I get a message as follows:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
cannot
 open crt1.o: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
c++: file path prefix `/build/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/' never used
make: *** [setup.exe] Error 1

All I really wanted to do was know wwhat it would take to get it to 
compile and st_size in the stat structure to work like I thought I 
understood it could/would.  I'll use the patch.

I would still like to understand what is going on here if someone has 
time for a beginner.