Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:

Hello!

> Mathieu Othacehe writes:
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>> 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.
[..]
>> 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 use stat64 and friends on 32bit, I created the attached patch for GNU
Mes and hope to create a 0.24.2 release from

    https://gitlab.com/janneke/mes/-/tree/wip-stat64

Also, I have update my core-updates branch with preliminary 0.24.2 mes
and mes-boot packages here

    https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/-/tree/core-updates

Greetings,
Janneke