AW: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.4.125-eca6

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> coreutils began the switch to C99 years ago, and that sort of
> initialization is a new addition.  We did debate whether to use the
> new-to-coreutils construct.  However, if that's the only bit of code
> that causes build failure for this compiler, I may accommodate it with
> the attached patch:

thanx for the quick response.

Side note: according to the help output, this compiler supports C99
syntax:
        -xc99[=<a>]     Enable ISO C99 features, <a>={%all,%none}
but using that option doesn't make any difference.

Changing the code using your patch makes `make` work.
Unfortunately, `make check` also fails:

  CC     stdbuf.o
"stdbuf.c", line 214: warning: non-constant initializer: op "NAME"
"stdbuf.c", line 214: left operand must be modifiable lvalue: op "="
"stdbuf.c", line 261: cannot recover from previous errors
cc: acomp failed for stdbuf.c

I guess it hit on the const declarations.
The source stdbuf.c compiles if I change this:

        diff stdbuf.c-ORIG stdbuf.c
        213c213
        <   char const *const search_path[] = {
        ---
        >   char* search_path[] = {

After that, the linker complains about this:

          CCLD   libstdbuf.so
        cc: Warning: illegal option -fPIC
        cc: Warning: -s conflicts with -g. -s turned off
        ild: calling ld to finish link -- cannot handle argument -h
        ld: fatal: option -h and building a dynamic executable are
incompatible
        ld: fatal: Flags processing errors
        *** Error code 1
        The following command caused the error:
        echo "  CCLD  " libstdbuf.so;cc -fPIC   -g  -shared
-Wl,-z,ignore \
        -o libstdbuf.so libstdbuf_so-   libstdbuf.o  
        make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `libstdbuf.so'

I'll try to make it work and report it to you.

Have a nice day,
Berny