Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for reporting that. In looking at the code, I found > some other problems (notably, errno was sometimes mishandled) > and installed the following more-general patch into gnulib. > > 2006-10-11 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * lib/rename-

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For some reason, I also appear to need the following on NSK/OSS, but > not on any of the other platforms that lacked c99 compilers. Thanks for reporting that. In looking at the code, I found some other problems (notably, errno was sometimes mishandle

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Michael Deutschmann wrote: coreutils-6.3 includes a patch, c99-to-c89.diff, to allow it to be compiled on platforms that don't support declarations after statements. However, this patch is not sufficent -- I had to fix two other areas to get coreutils to compile under GCC 2.95.3. I've appended m

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So, at least here, if c99 becomes a strict requirement, I won't be able to build on sparc Solaris at all, unless I can manage building gcc first. A couple of things. * First, coreutils doesn't require C99; it merely requires a few C9

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Eggert
mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, at least here, if c99 becomes a strict requirement, I won't be > able to build on sparc Solaris at all, unless I can manage building > gcc first. A couple of things. * First, coreutils doesn't require C99; it merely requires a few C99 features, like

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Deutschmann wrote: coreutils-6.3 includes a patch, c99-to-c89.diff, to allow it to be compiled on platforms that don't support declarations after statements. However, this patch is not sufficent -- I had to fix two other areas to get coreutils to compile under GCC 2.95.3. I've appended m

Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

2006-10-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Deutschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > coreutils-6.3 includes a patch, c99-to-c89.diff, to allow it to be > compiled on platforms that don't support declarations after statements. > However, this patch is not sufficent -- I had to fix two other areas to > get coreutils to compile under GC