Re: coreutils-6.5: yet another C89 problem

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke writes:
> > Maybe it would help if someone occasionally did builds with gcc's
> > strict-c89 mode
>
> Even better, if someone would build CVS coreutils once a day with some
> random non-GCC c89 compiler.
>
> Perhaps you could arrange for that?  (The usual idea is that the the
> people who need a feature volunteer to maintain it. :-)

I'm sure someone in IT (or accounting :-)) would have things to say 
about that. I build stable versions because having a GNU toolchain helps 
me do my job with (generally) fewer headaches. Doing nightly builds on 
computers that are not mine would be another matter; certainly I would 
need to get permission. I could probably do it on this box, but since 
it's Linux, it would still be with gcc.

For what it's worth, coreutils-6.5 fails in fts.c with CFLAGS='-ansi 
-Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement', which catches the most popular 
c89-non-conformance issues.

gcc  -I.      -ansi -Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement -MT fts.o -MD 
-MP -MF .deps/fts.Tpo -c -o fts.o fts.c
fts.c: In function `fts_safe_changedir':
fts.c:1649: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
make[2]: *** [fts.o] Error 1

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