Re: [bug-gawk] gawk-4.0.2 build problem

[Manuel Collado]

El 15/01/2013 19:14, Aharon Robbins escribió:
> The change below looks OK to me. I will check it out with the GNU grep
> guys though, since dfa.c comes from there.

Another possibility could be to replicate the #include <stddef.h> 
directive in dfa.h, instead of relying on xalloc.h doing that. Sorry, 
not tested, but it seems that this #include is required to have 
ptrdiff_t safely defined.

> I think "lenny" is not that new, but I could be wrong.

Yes, it is a bit outdated. But able to build previous gawk versions up 
to 4.0.1 inclusive.

> Thanks for the report,
>
> Arnold
>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:37:51 +0100
> > From: Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [bug-gawk] gawk-4.0.2 build problem
> > ...
> > Previous gawk versions, up to 4.0.1, build ok. The problem seems to be
> > the introduction of the ptrdiff_t type in 4.0.2.
> >
> > After tweaking a bit the source code, I've found that the problem
> > disappears by slightly changing the order of #include(s) in dfa.c.
> >
> > Instead of (fail)
> >
> >     #include "dfa.h"
> >     #include "xalloc.h"
> >
> > I've used (works)
> >
> >     #include "xalloc.h"
> >     #include "dfa.h"
> >
> > I have little experience with the libc internals. Don't know if this
> > patch is safe.

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