GNU bug report logs - #8295
coreutils 8.10 portability fixes

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Andreas Stolcke <stolcke <at> speech.sri.com>

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:04:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

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From: Andreas Stolcke <stolcke <at> ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8295: coreutils 8.10 portability fixes
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:44:16 -0700

In message <4D855F74.3070604 <at> cs.ucla.edu>you wrote:
> 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".

right.

> 
> 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?

gcc-3.4.6 on mips-sgi-irix5.3, the last version i was able build on this old box.
Good question, i don't know why configure didn't add -std=c99 to the CFLAGS.
That would be the easier fix. 

--Andreas
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