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Compilation problems with coreutils-8.9

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From: Rob McMahon <Rob.McMahon <at> warwick.ac.uk>
To: 9380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9380: Compilation problems with coreutils-8.9
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:58:25 +0100

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I suspect you're going to say "upgrade to a more modern compiler" for 
most of these patches, but I had cause to install a later coreutils on 
an old box where this is not a viable option, running

cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-12 2003/05/18

There are many uses of later C compilers to accept declarations 
intermingled with statements, which are not supported by this compiler.  
The attached diffs fix all these problems.  Many of them are just 
swapping a couple of lines, which is probably worth it in the interests 
of compatibility.

Rob

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