Re: More coreutils-5.90 build feedback

[Jim Meyering]

Good to know.
Thanks again.

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On the compilation problem for lib/getaddrinfo.c in coreutils-5.90
> on Compaq Alpha OSF/1 5.1:
>
>       Neither c89, nor cc, nor gcc will compile that file in fresh
>       configures and builds with each compiler.
>
> For the Sun Solaris 7 problem with the missing getservbyname, a
> rebuild with CC=gcc did not fix the problem (as I expected).  A manual
> restart with
>
>       make LIBS='-lnsl -lsocket' check
>
> produced a successful build, and I've now installed coreutils-5.90 on
> that system.