Re: compiling 0115 snapshot on windows.

[Jim Meyering]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

| | okay people i just compiled the snapshot on windows with MSVC (yuck :o)
| | cygwin configure didn't work out since it said 'install-sh' is missing...
|
| Yep, the distro is not really portable those days, sorry.
|
| | --------------------------------------------------------------------
| | diff -r -a -u bisonorg/lib/quote.c bisondiff/lib/quote.c
| | --- bisonorg/lib/quote.c    Mon Oct 16 18:28:40 2000
| | +++ bisondiff/lib/quote.c   Tue Jan 16 12:36:19 2001
| | @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
| |  #endif
| |
| |  #include <sys/types.h>
| | +#include <stdio.h>
| |  #include <quotearg.h>
| |  #include <quote.h>
| |
| | diff -r -a -u bisonorg/lib/quotearg.c bisondiff/lib/quotearg.c
| | --- bisonorg/lib/quotearg.c Mon Oct 16 18:28:40 2000
| | +++ bisondiff/lib/quotearg.c        Tue Jan 16 12:36:08 2001
| | @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
| |  #endif
| |
| |  #include <sys/types.h>
| | +#include <stdio.h>
| |  #include <quotearg.h>
| |  #include <xalloc.h>
| |
|
| Why those two?  You say:
|
| | The one and only real stuff fixed is that it needed stdio.h in quote.c and
| | quotearg.c to know from type_t.
|
| But clearly you meant something else.  size_t I suppose?

Having to include stdio.h to get the definition of size_t
sounds rather bizarre.  Are you sure the only definition of
size_t on that system is in stdio.h?

| | diff -r -a -u bisonorg/lib/xmalloc.c bisondiff/lib/xmalloc.c
| | --- bisonorg/lib/xmalloc.c  Mon Oct  2 09:48:32 2000
| | +++ bisondiff/lib/xmalloc.c Tue Jan 16 12:36:55 2001
| | @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
| |  #endif
| |
| |  #ifndef HAVE_DONE_WORKING_MALLOC_CHECK
| | -you must run the autoconf test for a properly working malloc -- see

Double quote the string (the whole `you...see' line) and it will
reliably induce a nice syntax error.

| | malloc.m4
| | +#error you must run the autoconf test for a properly working malloc --
| | see malloc.m4
| |  #endif
|
| Not portable (well, at least we believe it is not), in the sense that
| some compiler would choke on
|
| #if 0
| # error Impossible!
| #endif
|
| so, no.