Re: .tar.xz only policy

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/19/11 07:47, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> xz requires a C99 compiler because it intermingles declarations and
> statements throughout.

So does grep, so I don't see how this is an additional obstacle
against building grep.

As far as OpenBSD/vax goes, perhaps if you have enough energy
you could port a non-ancient version of GCC to it.  Or, if that's
not possible for some reason, perhaps you could
build xz and grep with some other C compiler.  xz and grep are
not unusual these days in using statements before declarations,
so this is a problem that you'll have to address sooner or later anyway.
And in the meantime you can still build older grep versions.