Re: GCC support for STDC constructs

[Paul Eggert]

Brian Dessent <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, consider posting to the autoconf list (which I added to CC), as
> this doesn't seem to necessarily have anything to do with gcc so much as
> autoconf.

I just now successfully configured GNU coreutils 6.3 using GCC 2.95.3
on Solaris 9 (32-bit sparc).  This GCC is the one that Sun ships as
part of Solaris 9, in /opt/sfw/bin/gcc; it's in the SFWgcc package.
The relevant lines of the 'configure' output are:

   checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
   checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
   checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
   checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
   checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... unsupported
   checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
   checking for gcc option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) none needed
   checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
   checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

Coreutils 6.3 uses Autoconf 2.60 to generate its configure script.

So I suspect that the problem is related to his GCC installation on
Solaris 9, or perhaps to OpenLDAP itself, or perhaps due to OpenLDAP
using an older version of Autoconf.