On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:51:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > 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.
There are two issues with C99, compiler support and library support. A survey of all of our platforms wrt C99 support is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-January/msg00275.html -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
