Re: [bug #21454] findutils-4.3.8 fails to compile with gcc-4.2.2/glibc-2.7 in mbuiter.h

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, James Youngman wrote:
> > On Nov 10, 2007 10:27 PM, anonymous <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Gentoo has a fix for this in Gentoo bug 197326
> > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197326
> >
> > Why not
> > contribute your bugfixes to the upstream package?
>
> there's nothing to contribute to findutils and the change was taken from
> gnulib.

in fact, reading the patch makes this quite obvious:
$head /usr/portage/sys-apps/findutils/files/findutils-4.3.8-gnulib-stddef.patch
https://bugs.gentoo.org/197326

2007-06-10  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
 
        * lib/mbiter.h: Include <stddef.h>, needed for ptrdiff_t.
        * lib/mbuiter.h: Likewise.

diff --git a/gnulib/lib/mbuiter.h b/gnulib/lib/mbuiter.h
index e6ad488..c4ceddb 100644
--- a/gnulib/lib/mbuiter.h
-mike

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