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

[Eric Blake]

> > 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'

Phooey - that means I gave bad advice.  Although autoconf
is getting better at working in spite of -Werror, we are not
there yet.  This particular case can be easily fixed, patch
below; but in general it is asking for spurious failures when
configuring with -Werror.  Once configured, though, running
make with -Werror is good policy for portability checks.

What I meant to ask you to try, rather than
'configure CFLAGS=-Werror; make', was:

$ ./configure CFLAGS=-Wall
$ make CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror'

And see if THAT combination allows gnulib regex.c to
compile cleanly.

Bruno, is it okay to apply this?

2006-06-14  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        * ssize_t.m4 (gt_TYPE_SSIZE_T): Work in spite of -Werror.
 

Index: m4/ssize_t.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/m4/ssize_t.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -p -r1.9 ssize_t.m4
--- m4/ssize_t.m4       18 Jan 2005 13:07:56 -0000      1.9
+++ m4/ssize_t.m4       15 Jun 2006 03:15:01 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# ssize_t.m4 serial 3 (gettext-0.13)
-dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# ssize_t.m4 serial 4 (gettext-0.13)
+dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gt_TYPE_SSIZE_T],
 [
   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for ssize_t], gt_cv_ssize_t,
     [AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <sys/types.h>],
-       [int x = sizeof (ssize_t *) + sizeof (ssize_t);],
+       [int x = sizeof (ssize_t *) + sizeof (ssize_t);
+        return !x],
        gt_cv_ssize_t=yes, gt_cv_ssize_t=no)])
   if test $gt_cv_ssize_t = no; then
     AC_DEFINE(ssize_t, int,