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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 ----------------------- |