Re: [Bug-tar] Building tar 1.19 on HP-UX v11.00

[Eric Blake]

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According to Gary E. Barnes on 11/6/2007 2:29 PM:

[adding the gnulib list]

> 1) Compilation dies due to conflicting malloc declarations.
> 
> 2) If we add "setenv CPPFLAGS '-D_CLASSIC_ANSI_TYPES=1' (which basically
>    turns all prototypes into classing K&R prototypes with not arguments) and
>    reconfigure then we get much further but then CHAR_BITS is never
>    defined.
> 
> 3) If we add -DCHAR_BITS=8 then we can build tar.  But make check fails due
>    to use of "restrict" in parameter declarations.
> 
> 4) This can be "fixed" by adding -Drestrict= to CPPFLAGS.  But then many
>    tests fail.  Test #56 never finishes.

Thanks for the report.  Again, many of these portability issues have
already been identified in gnulib, but after the release of tar 1.19, so
hopefully using a newer copy of gnulib will address all of these problems.

> 
>     Gary
> 
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> 4.4.2c-cognate 104: uname -a
> HP-UX cognate B.11.00 U 9000/785 unknown unknown HP-UX
> 4.4.2c-cognate 105: 

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