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Re: 1.4.16 compile failure on SunOS-5.7
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Eric Blake |
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Re: 1.4.16 compile failure on SunOS-5.7 |
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Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:54:52 -0600 |
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On 03/31/2012 04:48 AM, Volker Borchert wrote:
>
>
> After quite a lot of warnings about
> "`struct stat' declared inside parameter list",
> the build finally aborts with
>
> \
> source='../../lib/tmpdir.c' object='tmpdir.o' libtool=no \
> DEPDIR=.deps depmode=gcc /bin/ksh ../../build-aux/depcomp \
> gcc -I. -I../../lib -I/usr/local/include -ggdb -O2 -c
> ../../lib/tmpdir.c
> In file included from ../../lib/tmpdir.c:39:
> sys/stat.h:914: warning: `struct stat' declared inside parameter list
> sys/stat.h:914: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration,
> which is probably not what you want.
> ../../lib/tmpdir.c: In function `direxists':
> ../../lib/tmpdir.c:68: storage size of `buf' isn't known
Thanks for the report. However, SunOS-5.7 (aka Solaris 7) is so old
that gnulib no longer actively caters to it:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#Target-Platforms
The problem appears to be that the gnulib replacement headers are
missing a workaround to pick up the proper system header that defines
'struct stat'; it may be fixable in gnulib. If you want to tackle
patching gnulib to cater to this old of a system, and your patches are
maintainable, then there is a possibility that a future m4 release using
newer gnulib will work on a system that old. But for now, I'm afraid
that you are trying to port to museumware and won't get very far.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
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