Re: MacOSX Leopard gcc-4.2 build problems with coreutils-7.0 and its gnulib

[Bruno Haible]

An update to our conversation on 2008-11-18:
> > I'd like to see how close we can get to having full 32- & 64-bit
> > universal binaries
> 
> That's currently something that does not work, because autoconf tests
> can yield different results in the 32-bit and in the 64-bit case - and
> some actually do, see below.

For most of the autoconf tests from gnulib, it's fixed in gnulib as of
today.

> > (2)  The next problem I had with coreutils-7.0 'make check', and
> > I'm _still_ stuck here:
> > The compiler bombs when it gets to building
> > coreutils-7.0/gnulib-tests/test-stdint:
> > […]
> > llvm-gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99  -I. -I../lib  -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I../lib 
> > -I./../lib -I/usr/local/include  -Os -mtune=core2 -march=core2 
> > -force_cpusubtype_ALL    -arch i386  -arch x86_64         -c test-stdint.c
> > test-stdint.c:263: error: negative width in bit-field 
> > ‘verify_error_if_negative_size__’
> > test-stdint.c:264: error: negative width in bit-field 
> > ‘verify_error_if_negative_size__’
> > test-stdint.c:263: error: negative width in bit-field 
> > ‘verify_error_if_negative_size__’
> > test-stdint.c:264: error: negative width in bit-field 
> > ‘verify_error_if_negative_size__’
> > […]

This one is fixed, in particular (at least with the regular Apple gcc, not
with llvm-gcc).

Bruno