Re: truncate.c fails to compile on make distcheck

[Pádraig Brady]

Michael Geng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I'm running make distcheck on the Coreutils I get an error message
> 
> ...
> gcc -std=gnu99  -I. -I../lib  -I../lib   -Werror -ansi -Wno-long-long -MT 
> truncate.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/truncate.Tpo -c -o truncate.o truncate.c
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> truncate.c: In function 'parse_len':
> truncate.c:78: error: passing argument 4 of 'xstrtoimax' from incompatible 
> pointer type
> make[6]: *** [truncate.o] Error 1
> ...
> 
> I'm running Linux on a PC and I compiled the Coreutils from git
> from this morning bootstrapped with Gnulib also from git from
> this morning.
> 
> Is this a bug in the Coreutils or is there something wrong on my system?

What version of glibc are you using.
I make the assumption that OFF_T_MAX = INTMAX_MAX,
but this is only true when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
I'll look into fixing that up this evening.
I wonder why that is not set in your lib/config.h ?

cheers,
Pádraig.