Ultrix 4.4 and Perl 5.005_03 compilation.

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From cfarmer@its.adelaide.edu.au

The Configure script fails when trying to check the existence of
fstat structure.

try.c​: In function `main'​:
try.c​:3​: storage size of `foo' isn't known
sh​: illegal io
jarrah> cat UU/try.c
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
int main () { struct statfs foo; foo.f_flags = 0; }
jarrah>

statfs is defined as a function rather than a structure that perl expects.

  Name
  statfs, - get file system statistics

  Syntax
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/param.h>
  #include <sys/mount.h>

  statfs(path, buffer)
  char *path;
  struct fs_data *buffer;

  Description
  The statfs library routine returns up-to-date information about a
  mounted file system. The path is the path name of any file within the
  mounted file system. The buffer is a pointer to an fs_data structure as

I encounter the same problem with Ultrix 4.3.

Is there a documented fix for this, its not obvious to me whether
I can un/define something in configure to skip this.

  Chris.