> GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8, because strerror.c uses
> CHAR_BIT without defining it. The problem occurs on any hosts that
> has strerror but where strerror(-2) doesn't return a useful string.
I'm committing this followup:
From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007
Hi Paul,
> The new version no longer caters well to ancient Unix
> hosts that lack strerror but have sys_errlist
doc/functions/strerror.texi needs an update to reflect this.
Bruno
GNU tar 1.19 doesn't build on Solaris 8, because strerror.c uses
CHAR_BIT without defining it. The problem occurs on any hosts that
has strerror but where strerror(-2) doesn't return a useful string.
strerror.c contains multiple copies of integer-printing code, and one
copy neglects to include ,
