Re: getline.c and ssize_t

[Bruno Haible]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> While attempting to compile sed from current CVS, I ran across the
> following output from bootstrap.sh:
> 
>   + cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -c getline.c
>   getline.c:26: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’
> before ‘getline’
> 
> Line 26 is the ssize_t return-type of getline. Adding #include
> <unistd.h> fixed it (I'm sure <sys/types.h> would too).
> 
> Unfortunately, after fixing that, I ran into
> 
>   cc: mbchar.c: No such file or directory
> 
> which I suspect to be just sed's bootstrap not being up-to-date with
> current gnulib

Everything looks correct in the current gnulib; in particular ssize_t
gets defined by <sys/types.h>, included by gnulib's <stdio.h> override.

Therefore I suspect, like you, that the use of gnulib in sed is not up-to-date;
please write to the email address in `sed --help` about this.

Bruno