Re: c-stack and Irix - libsigsegv

2008-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/16/2008 4:50 PM: > I've finally figured out why c-stack is being finicky on Irix 5.3 [1]. POSIX > requires that sigaltstack be given ss_sp pointing to the smallest address in > the alternate stack. But Irix is non-compl

Re: Problems with old GCC and #include_next

2008-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Reuben Thomas on 9/20/2008 4:22 PM: >> gnulib checks that the compiler supports #include_next before actually >> stuffing #include_next into the generated .h files. > > I think I might be confused here. I am running gnulib on my computer,

Re: Problems with old GCC and #include_next

2008-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi, Reuben Thomas wrote: Trying to build some code I wrote using gnulib on an old machine, it choked on #include_next. It is using gcc 3.3.3. Some other machines with non-GNU compilers seem to work OK, so is the problem that gnulib assumes that too-old

Re: Problems with old GCC and #include_next

2008-09-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Trying to build some code I wrote using gnulib on an old machine, it choked > on #include_next. It is using gcc 3.3.3. Some other machines with non-GNU > compilers seem to work OK, so is the problem that gnulib assumes that > too-old versions of GCC support #include_n

Problems with old GCC and #include_next

2008-09-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Trying to build some code I wrote using gnulib on an old machine, it choked on #include_next. It is using gcc 3.3.3. Some other machines with non-GNU compilers seem to work OK, so is the problem that gnulib assumes that too-old versions of GCC support #include_next? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | P

Re: msgmerge speedup: fstrcmp and diffseq improvements

2008-09-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, Thanks for your reply. * Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:20:02PM CEST: > > > It is all committed now. > > > > Thanks. Some change between then and now caused differences in the > > coreutils po files, though. > > Yes, this is intentional. OK, good to know. I was afrai

Re: vasnprintf(-0.0L) on Irix [was: snapshot in preparation for m4 1.4.12]

2008-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 9/18/2008 4:34 AM: > (You apparently copied the code for 'double'. Yes. > In the > 'double' case on mingw, in 'e' format, we need to use 3 digits for the > exponent, to match what MSVCRT does. This is not needed for 'long

Re: msgmerge speedup: fstrcmp and diffseq improvements

2008-09-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ralf, > > It is all committed now. > > Thanks. Some change between then and now caused differences in the > coreutils po files, though. Yes, this is intentional. In the draft patch, I had special code to guarantee backward compatibility, namely in case of ambiguity, to choose the string with

Re: mbchar fails to build on Irix 5.3

2008-09-20 Thread Tom G. Christensen
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 02:52:28PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Thanks for reporting this. The problem is apparently that on this platform, > neither not defines wint_t. I'm applying the attached > tentative workaround. > > When you create a new testdir from latest gnulib mbchar, does it now pas

Re: mbchar fails to build on Irix 5.3

2008-09-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Tom G. Christensen wrote: > I was trying to build GNU tar 1.20 but got stuck on gnulib mbchar. > > I created a testdir from the latest gnulib mbchar and this is the > result: > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/people/tgc/mbchar.test/mbchar/gllib' > source='localcharset.c' object='localcharset.o'