[bugs #12073] c89 syntax error in find/find.c

[James Youngman]

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                 Summary: c89 syntax error in find/find.c
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: jay
            Submitted on: Mon 02/21/2005 at 10:17
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Ordinary
              Item Group: Compilation Failure
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: jay
         Originator Name: Michael Deutschmann
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.18
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Findutils 4.2.18 refused to compile on my system with the following error:



../../findutils-4.2.18/find/find.c: In function `safely_chdir_nofollow':

../../findutils-4.2.18/find/find.c:1097: parse error before `int'

../../findutils-4.2.18/find/find.c:1098: `fd' undeclared (first use in this

+function)

../../findutils-4.2.18/find/find.c:1098: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported

+only once

../../findutils-4.2.18/find/find.c:1098: for each function it appears in.)



Checking the source reveals that at that point of the file there is a

declaration ("int fd = open(...);") after an assignment ("errno = 0;").

That's legal in C++, but not in C.



(Vitals: Linux 2.0.40, i386-pc-linux-gnu, GCC 2.95.3, GLIBC 2.1.3)





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