Re: coreutils-6.8 does not compile

[Jim Meyering]

Elias Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> coreutils-6.8 does not compile on my machine (ppc g4, macosx 10.4.8)
>
> gcc -std=gnu99  -I.      -g -O2 -MT putenv.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/
> putenv.Tpo -c -o putenv.o putenv.c
> putenv.c:61: error: conflicting types for 'unsetenv'
> ///usr/include/stdlib.h:243: error: previous declaration of
> 'unsetenv' was here
> make[2]: *** [putenv.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Thanks for the report.
I fixed that within hours of the release.
Here's the patch:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9854

and here's a snapshot that includes that patch and very little else:

    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz