Re: Bug: liblua use of undeclared type off_t causes build failure on OSX10.4PPC

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi Geoff,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Geoff Down <geoffdown () fastmail net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>  I experienced this bug when trying to install Macports Nmap @6.47_0 .
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38822
> Seems off_t isn't native to the compiler apple-gcc42 (which is the
> latest available from Macports at least) and the legacy sys/types.h,
> where it is in fact defined, isn't included by liolib.c .
> Can you fix this so that other non C-programmers don't have to dive into
> the code please? I assume my kludge won't cause me any problems.
> Regards,
> Geoff Down

That bug seems to be a duplicate of [1]. Also, this has been brought
up on Lua's mailing list here [2].

Summary: this is Apple's fault since off_t is required to be defined
in stdio.h as per [3] (POSIX.1-2008).

Please forward the bug to Apple and/or have downstream macports (?)
maintain a patch.

[1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40433
[2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-12/msg00707.html
[3] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdio.h.html

-- 
Patrick Donnelly
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