Re: coreutils-4.5.12 doesn't build on HP-UX 11.00 with gcc 3.0.4

[Jim Meyering]

Jerome Zago <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> address@hidden:~/src/tmp$ cat k.c
> #include <stddef.h>
> size_t n;
> address@hidden cc -c k.c && echo OK
> OK
> address@hidden gcc -c k.c && echo OK
> OK
> -----
>
> Note that coreutils-4.5.12 does build with cc:
> -----
> address@hidden:~/src/orig/coreutils-4.5.12$ CC=cc ./configure >/dev/null 2>&1 
> && make >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo OK

Thank you.
So it's something more subtle.
Please do this in the build directory you configured to use gcc:

cd lib
rm full-read.o
make AM_CFLAGS='-E -dD' full-read.o

Then look at the resulting full-read.o file (it contains preprocessor
output) and try to see what's going wrong.  It should include a
declaration or definition of size_t before the first use in safe-read.h.
Please send a copy of that file to me, not to the list.

In any case, you might want to install a newer version of gcc.
3.0.4 is pretty old.