Re: [Bug-readline] Solaris 10 SPARC with Oracle Studio 12.6 : WARNING: stdbool.h: present but cannot be compiled

[Dennis Clarke]

On 1/19/19 5:22 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/19/19 2:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > The usual noise that I sometimes see.
>
> OK. I don't Oracle Studio.

Not many people do.

> > Was not an issue way back with readline-6.3 :
> That's interesting, since the only difference is autoconf-2.68 vs. the
> current autoconf-2.69.
>
> Does the configure log (config.log) have any more detail about what
> configure is doing? The "prerequisite headers" thing is clearly nonsense.

The entire output from configure was :


corv $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-multibyte \
> --enable-shared --enable-static
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

Beginning configuration for readline-8.0 for sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking whether /usr/local/bin/gmake sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc accepts -g... yes
checking for /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... 
none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/local/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/local/bin/grep -E
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checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
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checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
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checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./support/install.sh -c
checking for ar... /usr/ccs/bin/ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
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checking whether char is unsigned... no
checking for working volatile... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
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checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking for fcntl... yes
checking for kill... yes
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checking for working chown... yes
checking for working strcoll... yes
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checking varargs.h usability... yes
checking varargs.h presence... yes
checking for varargs.h... yes
checking stdarg.h usability... yes
checking stdarg.h presence... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking stdbool.h usability... no
checking stdbool.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ----------------------------------- ##
checking for stdbool.h... no
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking pwd.h usability... yes
checking pwd.h presence... yes
checking for pwd.h... yes
checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
checking termcap.h usability... no
checking termcap.h presence... no
checking for termcap.h... no
checking termios.h usability... yes
checking termios.h presence... yes
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checking termio.h presence... yes
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checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
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checking sys/pte.h presence... no
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checking sys/stream.h usability... yes
checking sys/stream.h presence... yes
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checking sys/select.h usability... yes
checking sys/select.h presence... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking sys/file.h usability... yes
checking sys/file.h presence... yes
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checking for sys/ptem.h... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for type of signal functions... posix
checking if signal handlers must be reinstalled when invoked... no
checking for presence of POSIX-style sigsetjmp/siglongjmp... present
checking for lstat... yes
checking whether or not strcoll and strcmp differ... no
checking whether the ctype macros accept non-ascii characters... yes
checking whether getpw functions are declared in pwd.h... yes
checking whether termios.h defines TIOCGWINSZ... yes
checking for sig_atomic_t in signal.h... yes
checking whether signal handlers are of type void... yes
checking for TIOCSTAT in sys/ioctl.h... no
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checking for struct winsize in sys/ioctl.h and termios.h... termios.h
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checking whether AUDIT_USER_TTY is declared... no
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checking which library has the termcap functions... using libtermcap
checking wctype.h usability... yes
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checking wchar.h presence... yes
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checking langinfo.h presence... yes
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checking mbstr.h presence... no
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checking whether mbrtowc and mbstate_t are properly declared... yes
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checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for wchar_t in wchar.h... yes
checking for wctype_t in wctype.h... yes
checking for wint_t in wctype.h... yes
checking for wcwidth broken with unicode combining characters... no
checking size of wchar_t... 4
checking configuration for building shared libraries... supported
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating shlib/Makefile
config.status: creating readline.pc
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default commands
corv $

Dennis