Re: lib/freadseek.c:69:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadseek.c to your platform!

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

We'll need a bit more technical information to troubleshoot
the issue:

On 2018-12-29 1:22 a.m., Necktwi Ozfguah wrote:
> While I am building coreutils with musl on  aarch64 (RaspberryPi 3B), 

Which operating system and which version are you using?
The output of "uname -a" would be helpful.

Note that while the RPi3B board does support 64bit mode (aarch64),
most common OSes (like Rasbian) still run in 32bit mode (arm7l).

> this error is thrown:
> lib/freadseek.c: In function 'freadptrinc':
> lib/freadseek.c:69:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadseek.c to 
> your platform! Look at the definition of getc, getc_unlocked on your 
> system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>    #error "Please port gnulib freadseek.c to your platform! Look at the 
> definition of getc, getc_unlocked on your system, then report this to 
> bug-gnulib."
>     ^~~~~

Which version of coreutils are you using,
and which version of musl are you using?
It would also help to know how you compile them (e.g the "./configure"
command, if not standard).

For example,
I've just tried compiling a recent coreutils version 
(v8.30-33-g2f438fa9f from git), using the latest musl 
(1.1.20-git-165-gde7dc13),
on x86_64, arm7l (Raspian9) and aarch64 (Ubuntu 14.04),
using the following command:

  ./configure CC=musl-gcc LDFLAGS="-static"

and they all compiled without errors.

regards,
 - assaf