Re: truncate.c fails to compile on make distcheck

[Michael Geng]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:29:57PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Michael Geng wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I'm running make distcheck on the Coreutils I get an error message
> > 
> > ...
> > gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../lib  -I../lib   -Werror -ansi -Wno-long-long -MT 
> > truncate.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/truncate.Tpo -c -o truncate.o truncate.c
> > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > truncate.c: In function 'parse_len':
> > truncate.c:78: error: passing argument 4 of 'xstrtoimax' from incompatible 
> > pointer type
> > make[6]: *** [truncate.o] Error 1
> > ...
> > 
> > I'm running Linux on a PC and I compiled the Coreutils from git
> > from this morning bootstrapped with Gnulib also from git from
> > this morning.
> > 
> > Is this a bug in the Coreutils or is there something wrong on my system?
> 
> What version of glibc are you using.
> I make the assumption that OFF_T_MAX = INTMAX_MAX,
> but this is only true when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> I'll look into fixing that up this evening.
> I wonder why that is not set in your lib/config.h ?
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig.

I'm using glibc version 2.7 (Debian packages libc6 and libc6-dev 
version 2.7-12).

In my lib/config.h in my sources of the Coreutils I have 
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS set to 64.

Michael