Re: making coreutils depend on c99

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:51:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Albert Chin <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> >> I expect to provide a patch to convert the initially-few
> >> uses of c99-specific constructs to equivalent c89 ones.
> >> The manual steps required to build with a pre-c99 compiler
> >> will encourage stragglers to obtain/provide a more modern compiler.
> >
> > Then it won't build on Solaris 2.6, HP-UX 10.20, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, and
> > maybe AIX 4.3.3. Newer compilers are not available for these
> > platforms.
> 
> All of those systems are rather old.
> Last I heard, one could build gcc on all of them.
> So, people building coreutils will have a choice: apply the
> c99->c89 patch or install a modern compiler and use that
> instead of the vendor-supplied one.

There are two issues with C99, compiler support and library support. A
survey of all of our platforms wrt C99 support is available at:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-January/msg00275.html

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albert chin (address@hidden)