Re: coreutils-6.3: c89 patch insufficent

[mwoehlke]

Michael Deutschmann wrote:
> coreutils-6.3 includes a patch, c99-to-c89.diff, to allow it to be
> compiled on platforms that don't support declarations after statements.
> However, this patch is not sufficent -- I had to fix two other areas to
> get coreutils to compile under GCC 2.95.3.
>
> I've appended my fixes.  They are to be applied after the existing
> c99-to-c89.diff.
>
> [snip patch]

Thanks for those.

FYI:
Since I remember having a discussion on the wisdom of requiring c99, 
I'll mention that I have since discovered that our sparc Solaris 
platform (which is 2.7, that being the oldest version on which we still 
support products) does not have a c99. In fact, other than gcc 3.2.3 
which we have built for 2.8 (and doesn't work on 2.7, if at all - 
configure complained 'header exists but is not usable' for apparently 
EVERY header that existed), I can't find that we have *any* c99 compiler 
for sparc.

So, at least here, if c99 becomes a strict requirement, I won't be able 
to build on sparc Solaris at all, unless I can manage building gcc first.

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Matthew
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