bug#20453: closed (Building on AIX 7.1 with GCC)

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> Building on AIX 7.1 with GCC
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> Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:25:04 +0100
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> Hi,
> Just ran into an issue which affects gzip, gettext & tar on AIX.
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> The configure tests for wctype.h & checks for the suitability of
> wctype_t & wctrans_t.
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> It detects the presence of wctype.h but wctype_t & wctrans_t are
> unsuitable at which point it tries to use its own bundled copy of
> wctype.h. The build then fails as there's conflicting types for wctype_t
> & wctrans_t.
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> In file included from quotearg.c:43:
> ./wctype.h:724: error: conflicting types for 'wctype_t'
> /opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0/4.2.0/include/ctype.h:119:
> error: previous declaration of 'wctype_t' was here
> ./wctype.h:773: error: conflicting types for 'wctrans_t'
> /usr/include/wctype.h:52: error: previous declaration of 'wctrans_t' was
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> bundled wctype.h:724 typedef void * wctype_t;
> bundled wctype.h:773 typedef void * wctrans_t;
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> system wctype.h:52  typedef wint_t (*wctrans_t)();
> gcc ctype.h:119 typedef unsigned int    wctype_t;
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> Passing ac_cv_header_wctype_h=no to the configure stage works but is a
> work around for the issue.
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> Sevan
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> Re: bug#20453: Building on AIX 7.1 with GCC
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> Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:22:57 -0700
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> On 4/28/15 19:25, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
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> > Just ran into an issue which affects gzip, gettext & tar on AIX.
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> Thanks for reporting that seven years ago. I just now tried building 
> bleeding-edge gzip and gettext 0.21 on AIX 7.1 with xlc, and it worked 
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> gzip no longer uses quotearg, and gettext 0.21 compiles quotearg OK, so 
> I'll assume this problem was fixed in Gnulib quotearg a while ago and we 
> just hadn't gotten around to closing the gzip bug report, which I'll do now.
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