Re: compiling textutils-2.0.18 fails with gcc-2.8.1

[Uwe H. Steinfeld]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre HANSER" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: compiling textutils-2.0.18 fails with gcc-2.8.1


> hello
> 
> trying to compile textutils 2.0.18 on a sparc station
> with solaris 2.6 and gcc-2.8.1, i had the following
> problem:
> 
> compilation of lib/regex.h fails, at the very point there is a NEXT call
> in the source:
> 
> ----
> regex.c: In function `byte_re_match_2_internal':
> In file included from regex.c:635:
> regex.c:6111: syntax error before `ptr'
> regex.c:6111: `ptr' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ----
> 
> If i disable __GNUC__ before the definition of the macro NEXT, line
> 5803,
> everything is OK
> 
> -- 
> Pierre Hanser

Try the following patch. I had a similar problem on a different system.

Uwe

--- ../textutils-2.0.18/lib/regex.c Wed Nov 28 07:57:52 2001
+++ ./lib/regex.c Mon Dec  3 19:39:50 2001
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@
 #undef _GNU_SOURCE
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 
+/* Support for bounded pointers.  */
+# ifndef __BOUNDED_POINTERS__
+#  define __bounded      /* nothing */
+#  define __unbounded    /* nothing */
+#  define __ptrvalue     /* nothing */
+# endif
+
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
 # include <config.h>
 #endif