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@@ -86,20 +86,15 @@ see <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/12015/>. Pre-C99 build failure ----------------------- -There is a new, implicit build requirement: -To build the coreutils from source, you should have a C99-conforming +In 2009 we added this requirement: +To build the coreutils from source, you must 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 - -[*] however, as of coreutils-7.1, the "c99-to-c89.diff" file is no longer -maintained, so even if the patches still apply, the result will be an -incomplete conversion. It's been 10 years. Get a decent compiler! ;-) +There used to be a "c99-to-c89.diff" patch you could apply to convert +to code that even an old pre-c99 compiler can handle, but it was too +tedious to maintain, so has been removed. *********************** |