bug#21554: no previous prototype for 'set_binary_mode'

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015, at 22:32, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/24/2015 01:50 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > (I can't get grep to build from git: binary-io.h:53: error:
> > no previous prototype for 'set_binary_mode'.)
> 
> On which platform are you testing?

Ubuntu Lucid.

$ gcc --version | head -1
gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3

> Are you sure you have a matching
> gnulib submodule checkout to go along with the grep.git checkout you are
> attempting?

I've rerun ./bootstrap.  (I suggest the attached patch to make
the script respond differently when updating an existing checkout 
as opposed to making a full, new checkout.)

> We should try and fix the reason that is preventing you from
> compiling, whether or not there is a release; but that requires more
> details.

Coming up in the next mail.

Benno

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