iozone3-434 fails to rebuild

[Jim Ohlstein]

Hello,

> On Jun 21, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Alphons van Werven <freebsd at skysmurf.nl> wrote:
> 
> Doug Sampson wrote:
> 
>> it crashes as follows:
>> 
>>  ###
>> <...snip...>
>> iozone.c:1297:1: error: unknown type name 'off64_t'; did you mean 'off_t'?
>> off64_t offset = 0;               /*offset for random I/O */
>> ^~~~~~~
>> off_t
>> /usr/include/sys/types.h:173:18: note: 'off_t' declared here
>> typedef __off_t         off_t;          /* file offset */
>>                        ^
> [snip]
>> Doesn't matter which config options I select/deselect,
> 
> As far as I can tell it doesn't *crash*, it merely fails to build ;-)
> 
> I don't think the options are relevant in this case. If I'm not mistaken
> off64_t is some kind of GNU extension, but installing lang/gcc and trying
> to compile a piece of sample code with GCC still didn't work for me. Which
> means I can reproduce the problem on 10.2-RELEASE-p19/amd64.
> 
> There seems to be a #define or typedef missing somewhere. Perhaps somebody
> can ask around upstream what the authors are expecting from the off64_t
> type, so we can find a suitable replacement on FreeBSD systems: probably
> offset_t, (u)int64_t, or something along those lines.

How about it be reverted to the previous, WORKING, version in the meantime, and before an "upgrade" is committed, proper testing is done?

Just sayin'

--
Jim