Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Jim Meyering]

Georg Schwarz <address@hidden> wrote:
> coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3 like this:

Thanks for the report.
For starters, I suggest that you try to use a different compiler.

> lorenz 10% env GREP=/usr/sbin/grep ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> checking build system type... mips-sgi-irix5.3
...

Here's one problem that should be easy to fix:

    > checking for flexible array member... yes
    ...
    >         cc  -I.       -g -c idcache.c
    > cfe: Warning 807: idcache.c, line 45: member cannot be of function or
    > incomplete type.
    >    char name[ ];
    > -------^

That seems to be due to a failure in the test for flex-array support.
Would you please look in config.log to see how the compilation
that checks "for flexible array member" failed?

At worst, you can send a copy of the entire config.log file to
the list (address@hidden, Cc'd, not bug-coreutils).