Re: [PATCH 2/2] stdint: support new _WIDTH macros

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/22/2016 09:22 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> the following fails:
>>
>>    ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/x --with-tests --test stdint
>
>
> Odd, I'm not seeing those failures on x86-64 Fedora 24 (gcc 6.2.1 20160916
> (Red Hat 6.2.1-2)).
>
> Hmm, I think I see the problem. I guess you're using prerelease GCC 7?
> Anyway, there is a typo in m4/stdint.m4. I installed the attached; does it
> fix things for you?
>
>> any time we use certain features of stdint.h, we must currently
>> also be sure to build gnulib-derived limits.h for that definition.
>
> m4/stdint.m4 was supposed to do that, but the typo got in the way.

Oh, yes. This is with GCC 7.

Thanks for the quick patch. I applied it and reran that gnulib-tool
command, but it still fails (no limits.h is created), but have just
run out of time for them moment. Here's the log:

gnulib-tool-stdint.log
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