Re: sharutils-4.11 does not compile on Solaris

[Bruno Haible]

> > "strtoimax.c", line 71: bit-field size < 0: verify_error_if_negative_size__
> > cc: acomp failed for strtoimax.c
> > gmake[6]: *** [strtoimax.o] Error 2
> > 
> > The operating system is Solaris 9 on sparc.  The processor of the
> > machine supports sparcv9 instruction set (64-bit), but the compilation
> > options -m32 forces a sparcv8 (32-bit) binary

This is due to an oddity in Solaris cc. A workaround against it was committed
to m4/longlong.m4 by Paul Eggert on 2007-11-13, in version 13 of longlong.m4.
But sharutils-4.11 ships with the previous version of longlong.m4, from
2007-10-31.

The current version of longlong.m4 in gnulib is version 16, and the current
version install by gettextize/autopoint 0.18.1 is version 14.

The release manager of sharutils ought to use the newest files from gnulib
(or from a stable gnulib release [1]) and the newest gettext release [2]
next time.

Bruno

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Steady-Development.html
[2] 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html
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