Re: [platform-testers] Please test new pre-release of a2ps

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Reuben,

> Am 31.01.2023 um 20:20 schrieb Reuben Thomas via platform-testers 
> <platform-testers@gnu.org>:
> 
> Hi platform-testers!
> 
> And thanks to Bruno Haible for suggesting I ask for help here.
> 
> I have taken over maintenance of the venerable a2ps, and I am nearly ready to 
> make the first release since 2007.
> 
> I have just made an alpha release, 4.14.94: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/
> 
> I would be very grateful if anyone who had time could test it on odd systems, 
> as historically a2ps has been highly portable. In theory, this should still 
> be the case, as I have done a lot of work to remove custom platform-dependent 
> code and use gnulib instead; but we all know how much use theory is in the 
> case of software portability!

On Solaris 10 with Sun Studio 12 I get the following error:

/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/csw/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/opt/csw/a2ps.cfg\" 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/opt/csw/include -D_REENTRANT   -xO3 -m32 -xarch=pentium_pro 
-xchip=pentium_pro -c -o output.lo output.c  libtool: compile:  
/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/csw/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFFILE=\"/etc/opt/csw/a2ps.cfg\" 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/opt/csw/include -D_REENTRANT -xO3 -m32 -xarch=pentium_pro 
-xchip=pentium_pro -c output.c -o output.o
"output.c", line 169: warning: no explicit type given for parameter: va_alist
"output.c", line 169: syntax error before or at: va_dcl   "output.c", line 171: 
warning: old-style declaration or incorrect type for: va_dcl
"output.c", line 201: cannot recover from previous errors   cc: acomp failed 
for output.c
gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:1676: output.lo] Error 1


Best regards

  — Dago

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