Re: a coreutils release is imminent

[Paul Eggert]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> Actually, what I get is:
>
> cc -xc99  -c -g  conftest.c >&5
> "/usr/include/stdbool.h", line 42: #error: "Use of <stdbool.h> is
> valid only in a c99 compilation environment."
> cc: acomp failed for conftest.c
>
> ...which feels distinctly like the compiler is *broken*.

No, all it means is that you haven't invoked the compiler correctly.
Try "cc -xc99=all".  This should work for recent Sun C compilers; if
it doesn't work for you, you should upgrade.

> Anyway, sort-compress is still "broken". Wasn't there talk of limiting
> the number of forks based on getrlimit?

There was, but nobody has had time to implement it yet.  It's not
pressing, since the behavior is not enabled unless you ask for it.
People shouldn't ask for it on very-limited machines.