#41264 - Bootstrap packages fail to build due to mes-libc lacking 'stat64' etc. syscalls

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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: bug#41264: Bootstrap packages fail to build.
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Mathieu Othacehe writes:

Hello Mathieu,

>> So stat, lstat, and all other related function will return -EOVERFLOW
>> unless their 64 bits stat64, lstat64 counterpart is used.
>>
>> So I think this means that one cannot build the Guix bootstrap toolchain on an
>> NVME disk.
>
> After further investigations I think that it is needed to patch GNU Mes
> to fix this bug.

Hmm, we need to patch Mes after all.  That's unfortunate.

> We would need to add three new syscalls for x86:
>
> #define SYS_stat64    0xc3
> #define SYS_lstat64   0xc4
> #define SYS_fstat64   0xc5
>
>
> lib/linux/stat.c should be modified this way:
>
> #if __i386__
> #define STAT_SYSCALL SYS_stat64
> #else
> #define STAT_SYSCALL SYS_stat
> #endif

Ah...the stat64 syscall is meant for i386; now it at starts making at
least some sense to me.

> int
> stat (char const *file_name, struct stat *statbuf)
> {
>   struct stat64 statbuf64;
>   int ret;
>
>   ret = _sys_call2 (STAT_SYSCALL, (long) file_name, (long) &statbuf64);
>
> #if __i386__
>   stat64_to_32(&statbuf64, statbuf);
> #else
>   *statbuf = statbuf64;
> #endif
>
>   return ret;
> }

That looks OK...

> Then we would need to create stat64_to_32 which could be inspired from
> __xstat64_conv from the glibc. Then, lstat and fstat64 would need to be
> patched the same way.
>
> This way, we would replicate the glibc behavior.

Beautiful, thanks for getting to the bottom of this.  Now that you
already have gone this far, would you like to whip-up a full patch for
GNU Mes?

To test it we may have to provide a tarball as we don't want to use XZ
and we don't have patch yet.  Or possibly we can download some
individual files ande overwrite them.

Greetings,
Janneke

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#41264 Bootstrap packages fail to build due to mes-libc lacking 'stat64' etc. syscalls