bug#9380: Compilation problems with coreutils-8.9

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/30/2011 12:46 PM, Rob McMahon wrote:
> On 26/08/2011 17:29, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Can't you compile with the -xc99 option?  The Sun documentation says it's
>> supported, even with that old compiler:
>>
>> http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/support/Ccompare.html#upd2e
>>
>> 'configure' should have deduced the -xc99 option for you; it tries
>> '-xc99=all' early on.  Does that not work for you?  The documentation
>> says '-xc99=%all' is required, but as I recall, the '%' was optional
>> even way back when.
>>
> That doesn't seem to be quite enough unfortunately:
> 
>> cc -V
> cc: Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-12 2003/05/18
>> dirs
> ~/src/gnu/dist/coreutils-8.9/lib
>> make -n heap.o
> echo "  CC      " heap.o;source='heap.c' object='heap.o' libtool=no \
> DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../build-aux/depcomp \
> cc  -I.   -D_REENTRANT   -O -xc99=%all -c -o heap.o heap.c
>> make heap.o
>   CC       heap.o
> "heap.c", line 99: syntax error before or at: void
> "heap.c", line 103: undefined symbol: top
> "heap.c", line 103: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "="
> cc: acomp failed for heap.c
> make: *** [heap.o] Error 2
> Exit 2
>> sed -n '96,103p' heap.c
>   if (heap->count == 0)
>     return NULL;
> 
>   void *top = heap->array[1];
>   heap->array[1] = heap->array[heap->count--];
>   heapify_down (heap->array, heap->count, 1, heap->compare);
> 
>   return top;

I've just adjusted that for heap.c as that might
be going to gnulib at some stage.
However you'll need to use your patch
for the rest of coreutils.

http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=683ee76
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8977

cheers,
Pádraig.