Re: findutils 4.2.27 on IRIX 5.3

[James Youngman]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> > Later versions (1995, I think) of the ANSI C standard require it.  The
> > file which you can't compile is part of gnulib, but gnulib only builds
> > on ANSI-standard-compliant systems.  
> 
> is it possible to build fileutils without gnulib?

Fileutils is now called coreutils and required gnulib.  Findutils also
requires gnulib.

> Or is findutils 4.2.23 the end of the road for IRIX5?

If you have a c89-compliant system, which I guess IRIX5+gcc is, then I
believe that gnulib will continue to support it.

So, if we can get a tested patch to the one file that doesn't compile,
so that the code builds on IRIX5, there's every chance to continue
supporting IRIX5 in findutils-4.2.28 and/or findutils-4.3.0.

Because I don't have access to an IRIX5 box, I can't test a patch so
I'm relying on you to do that.  

Regards,
James.