Re: Current coreutils HEAD does not compile

[Paul Eggert]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> With current coreutils HEAD (4e48b4ce334cb601dbbe2562e3aa410dc3ef3fba) I
> get this compile error:
>
> In file included from ///usr/include/inttypes.h:28,
>                  from ./inttypes.h:25,
>                  from ../../coreutils/lib/xstrtol.h:25,
>                  from ../../coreutils/lib/xstrtol.c:32,
>                  from ../../coreutils/lib/xstrtoimax.c:6:
> ./stdint.h:76:6: error: operator '&&' has no left operand
> make[2]: *** [xstrtoimax.o] Error 1
>
> This is because HAVE_SYS_BITYPES_H is never defined when
> $gl_cv_header_working_stdint_h = yes.

Weird.  If $gl_cv_header_working_stdint_h = yes, then there's not
supposed to be a file ./stdint.h, so HAVE_SYS_BITYPES_H's definition
is irrelevant.

Perhaps there was a leftover 'stdint.h' file around from a previous
build?   "make clean" is supposed to remove that.  Did that not work
for you?

Another possibility: perhaps STDINT_H was set in to the empty string
in your environment?  That would explain the problem.  I installed the
following patch into gnulib, which should be done in any event.  But
if this doesn't fix your problem, we need to dig deeper into why.

2006-12-18  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * m4/stdint.m4 (gl_STDINT_H): Set STDINT_H to empty if stdint.h
        conforms to C99, rather than relying on the user's environment
        setting of STDINT_H.

--- m4/stdint.m4        27 Nov 2006 22:58:46 -0000      1.24
+++ m4/stdint.m4        18 Dec 2006 22:26:15 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# stdint.m4 serial 20
+# stdint.m4 serial 21
 dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2002, 2004-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -192,8 +192,9 @@
         ]])],
          [gl_cv_header_working_stdint_h=yes])])
   fi
-  if test "$gl_cv_header_working_stdint_h" != yes; then
-
+  if test "$gl_cv_header_working_stdint_h" = yes; then
+    STDINT_H=
+  else
     dnl Check for <sys/inttypes.h>, and for
     dnl <sys/bitypes.h> (used in Linux libc4 >= 4.6.7 and libc5).
     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/inttypes.h sys/bitypes.h])