Subject: bug#8295: coreutils 8.10 portability fixes

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:59:16 -0700

On 03/19/2011 12:04 PM, Andreas Stolcke wrote:
> - Several places where iterator variables are declared inside for(), failing compiles
>    on systems that support c99.

I assume you meant "systems that don't support c99".

The README file has a section "Pre-C99 build failure"
about that.  Which compiler were you using, and why
didn't "configure" successfully put it into c99 mode?