Re: regex.c not 64-bit clean (?)

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Santiago Vila <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > checking for ssize_t... no
> 
> This is the crucial problem (in Output2).  That test cases includes
> <sys/types.h> and decides that you don't have ssize_t, so it puts
> "#define ssize_t int" into config.h.  Yet, as the other files make
> clear, your host does have a ssize_t typedef in <sys/types.h>.
> Can you please inspect config.log for the failing test, and find
> out why it mistakenly thinks your host lacks ssize_t?  Thanks.

You'll going to laugh at this :-)

configure:8876: checking for ssize_t
configure:8902: gcc -c -Wall -Werror  conftest.c >&5
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:79: warning: unused variable 'x'
configure:8908: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
snipped lots of #defines
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <sys/types.h>
| int
| main ()
| {
| int x = sizeof (ssize_t *) + sizeof (ssize_t);
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }