Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We got a bug report about Libtool 1.5.22 and SunOS 4.1.x this year, so > I'm not doing any C89 cleanup on branch-1-5.
"this year" meaning 2007? Or in the last 12 months? I searched for such a bug report and found only <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2006-06/msg00021.html> which mentions m68k SunOS 4.1.1 and sparc sunos 4.1.4. However, in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2006-06/msg00025.html> you asked "Does anybody actually use these systems outside of a museum?", noting that Sun itself dropped support for these operating systems long ago, and didn't get a response. I just checked <http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml>, and Sun stopped fixing bugs in SunOS 4.1.1 on 1997-01-06 and in SunOS 4.1.4 on 2000-09-30, and stopped giving advice about them on 2000-01-76 and 2003-09-30 respectively. Obviously it's up to you as to whether to do C89 cleanup, but if that bug report is what we're talking about, I wouldn't worry about it. On the other hand, is libtool supposed to address the problem of freestanding C compilers? If so, the only headers it is allowed to assume are <float.h>, <limits.h>, <stdarg.h>, and <stddef.h>. If memory serves, gnulib sometimes assumes freestanding, but more often hosted.
