Re: BUG #15858: could not stat file - over 4GB

=?UTF-8?Q?Juan_Jos=C3=A9_Santamar=C3=ADa_Flecha?= <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 4:23 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>> It seems to me that you don't need the configure changes.

> The changes in configuration are meant for gcc compilations in Windows
> (Cygwin and Mingw).

Directly editing the configure script is Not Done ... or at least,
such changes wouldn't survive the next correctly-done configure
update.  You have to edit configure.in (or one of the sub-files in
config/) and then regenerate configure using autoconf.

It seems likely that we *don't* need or want this for Cygwin;
that should be providing a reasonable stat() emulation already.
So probably you just want to add "AC_LIBOBJ(win32_stat)" to
the stanza beginning

    # Win32 (really MinGW) support
    if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32"; then
      AC_CHECK_FUNCS(_configthreadlocale)
      AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(gettimeofday)
      AC_LIBOBJ(dirmod)


I'd also recommend that stat() fill all the fields in struct stat,
even if you don't have anything better to put there than zeroes.
Otherwise you're just opening things up for random misbehavior.

I'm not in a position to comment on the details of the conversion from
GetFileAttributesEx results to struct stat, but in general this
seems like a reasonable way to proceed.

            regards, tom lane