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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-19 16:23:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-19 16:23:17 +0000 |
| commit | a075864c29528ea0c9e0ec68508a444798564394 (patch) | |
| tree | a83b27649eaca470431e3546fdc846f91288d18f | |
| parent | 9b3bb934bcb7b892921cfd9560d34363d8de57b9 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a075864c29528ea0c9e0ec68508a444798564394.tar.xz | |
* README: Describe potential "pre-C99 build failure", and work-around.
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2006-08-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + * README: Describe potential "pre-C99 build failure", and work-around. + Some of my 2006-07-03 changes to tests/*/Makefile.am were being backed out due to updates provoked by the copyright changes. * tests/Makefile.am.in (PATH): Prepend $(VG_PATH_PREFIX), so that @@ -61,6 +61,22 @@ way Sun implemented link(2) and chmod(2). *********************** +pre-C99 build failure +----------------------- + +There is a new, implicit build requirement: +To build the coreutils from source, you should have a C99-conforming +compiler, due to the use of declarations after non-declaration statements +in several files in src/. There is code in configure to find and, if +possible, enable an appropriate compiler. However, if configure doesn't +find a C99 compiler, it continues nonetheless, and your build will fail. +If that happens, simply apply the included patch using the following +command, and then run make again: + + cd src && patch < c99-to-c89.diff + + +*********************** HPUX 11.x build failure ----------------------- |