Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> According to Eric Blake on 12/27/2006 6:18 AM:
>>
>> I'm checking this in to fix this issue on platforms that do not need a
>> replacement <wctype.h>.  It is not a true reversion, since it rearranges
>> the include order to let <wctype.h> pulls in prerequisites required for
>> <wchar.h> on platforms where <wchar.h> is not self-standing.
>>
>> 2006-12-27  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>>
>>      * lib/fnmatch.c: Reinstate inclusion of <wchar.h>, since this
>>      module uses more than what <wctype.h> is required to provide.
>
> I'm supposing the alternative would be to make the wctype module smarter,
> and implement the CX shading in POSIX that says that <wctype.h> is allowed
> to pull in all of <wchar.h>.  Then gnulib modules should only ever need to
> include <wctype.h> and not worry about <wchar.h>, regardless of whether
> the platform's wctype.h opted not to pull in wchar.h.

Thanks for helping out.
FYI, I've just noticed that Bob's buildbot is showing compile
failures for all HPUX builds:

  http://proulx.com:9000/

I won't have time to investigate today.

  In file included from fnmatch.c:172:
  fnmatch_loop.c: In function `internal_fnmatch':
  fnmatch_loop.c:245: error: `wctype_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
  fnmatch_loop.c:245: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  fnmatch_loop.c:245: error: for each function it appears in.)
  fnmatch_loop.c:245: error: parse error before "wt"
  fnmatch_loop.c:275: error: `wt' undeclared (first use in this function)