Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-9.4.170-7b206.tar.xz

[Pádraig Brady]

On 23/03/2024 17:47, Sam James wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:
>
> > We plan to release coreutils-9.5 in the coming week
> > so any testing you can do on various different systems
> > between now and then would be most welcome.
> > This release comes about 30 weeks after the 9.4 release.
>
> I hit this build failure on Linux with GCC 14:
>
> src/uname.c: In function '__eat_cpuinfo_space':
> src/uname.c:173:29: error: implicit declaration of function 'isspace' 
> [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>    173 |         while (tmp > buf && isspace (*tmp))
>        |                             ^~~~~~~
> src/uname.c:56:1: note: include '<ctype.h>' or provide a declaration of 
> 'isspace'
>     55 | #include "uname.h"
>    +++ |+#include <ctype.h>
>     56 |
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:12507: src/uname.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-9.4_p20240323/work/coreutils-9.4.170-7b206'

We no longer include ctype.h for all utils since:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/4edb14d20

So the gentoo specific patch needs to be adjusted to now include <ctype.h>

cheers,
Pádraig