Hi Paul, Thanks for the swift response.
On 22 Sep 2010, at 12:33, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 10:11 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
>> But the patch causes a bizarre and apparently unrelated compilation
>> error:
>>
>> ; make V=1
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I../lib -g -O2 -MT sigprocmask.o -MD -MP -MF
>> .deps/sigprocmask.Tpo -c -o sigprocmask.o ../lib/sigprocmask.c
>> ../lib/sigprocmask.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'const'
>
> I don't see how the patch could do that, unless sigprocmask.c
> includes pthread.h somehow. Can you verify whether that happens,
> by using gcc -E? If so, which file is the immediate includer
> of pthread.h? And if not, what's the difference beween
> the output of gcc -E sigprocmask.c, with and without the patch?
You're right. I guess my working directory had gotten out of synch with
something. After a `git reset --hard master && git clean -d -x -f', and
applying the patch again freshly, it works perfectly well, and without
the problems of undefined symbols like the previous patch.
Sorry for the noise.
> Also, could you please try the simpler patch here instead?
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-09/msg00080.html
I'll reply in that thread when I've had time to try it.
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org)
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