Bug#1126803: libc6-dev: __INO_T_MATCHES_INO64_T not defined on alpha

Hi,

On 2026-02-01 19:28, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> Package: glibc
> Version: 2.41-3
> 
> src:libselinux FTBFS on alpha due to pedantic checks for an ABI
> incompatibility around matchpathcon_filespec_add(3).
> It seems __INO_T_MATCHES_INO64_T is not defined (to 1) although from
> my understanding ino_t and ino64_t have the same size of 8 bytes.

I think the definition is correct. ino_t is 32 bit on alpha, while 
ino64_t is 64 bit. This looks odd for a 64 bit architecture but it is 
like that for historical reason.

This means that the st_ino field of struct stat is 32 bit by default, 
and 64 bit with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.

Regards
Aurelien

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