Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I expect to provide a patch to convert the initially-few >> uses of c99-specific constructs to equivalent c89 ones. >> The manual steps required to build with a pre-c99 compiler >> will encourage stragglers to obtain/provide a more modern compiler. > > Then it won't build on Solaris 2.6, HP-UX 10.20, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, and > maybe AIX 4.3.3. Newer compilers are not available for these > platforms.
All of those systems are rather old. Last I heard, one could build gcc on all of them. So, people building coreutils will have a choice: apply the c99->c89 patch or install a modern compiler and use that instead of the vendor-supplied one. I might even make configure apply the patch when needed. > Is it really worth it? We'll see. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
