Re: compilation of findutils-4.4.0 with gcc-4.4.0-20090225 -- error with wctype.h in gnulib code

[Frank Erens]

2009/3/1 Frank Erens <address@hidden>:
> As I was quite sure this was a GCC bug, I've tried compiling this on my 
> MacBook
> ( uname -srm : Darwin 9.6.0 i386 ) with gcc-4.4.0-200821219. That
> specific version
> is tested by the people of HPC for Mac, so I could be sure there would
> be no (large)
> bugs in it.
>
> It looks like this is indeed a bug of the specific GCC version, as the
> build went fine
> on my Mac. I'm going to checkout this release on my Linux box and see
> if it works
> there as well. In case it does, the problem is not in Gnulib, but in
> GCC, which means
> that I'll have to contact the GCC team if nobody has done so yet.
>
> In case you might notice that it could have been a bug in Glibc as
> well, I'd like
> to mention that I'm using exactly the same Glibc version as used in
> the LFS book,
> and since they could build everything without problems, the most likely cause
> of this bug are the parts where I deviated from the book, namely the GCC
> version.

I've tried it with the other compiler, and it still gives the same
error. My hosts
compiler works fine. It's strange that it works on Mac with exactly the same
compiler version, but not on Linux. I guess that means we'll have to take
a closer look at mbchar.h

Thanks for the help,

Frank