[Georg Schwarz] Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the details.
For the record, I'm sending this to bug-gnulib, so others know, too.

  From: Georg Schwarz <address@hidden>
  Subject: Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3
  Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 23:31:31 +0100
  To: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>

  Am 03.12.2006 um 20:02 schrieb 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?

  OK, I have:

  configure:20647: cc -c -g  conftest.c >&5
  cfe: Warning 807: conftest.c, line 185: member cannot be of function
  or incomple
  te type.
               struct s { int n; double d[]; };
           -----------------------------^
  configure:20653: $? = 0
  configure:20668: result: yes

  looks like the SGI IDO cc reports back "no problems" despite of the
  failure to compile the code.

  When configuring with
  env ac_cv_c_flexmember=no GREP=/usr/sbin/grep ./configure --prefix=/
  usr/local

  the same problem occurs during compiling.
  Please let me know which further information I could provide to track
  down the issue.

  Thanks.

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