Hi,
Some history first: I have a debian machine I haven't upgraded in a
while. I upgrade it, apt-get falls apart and its suggested to me that I
should just reinstall. I don't really care as I use it for only a few
things.
Today I noticed that "ps" produces some strange figures. I assume
this is because of the half-upgrade and decide to replace it carefully
with coreutils tar.
I run configure. It runs fine. I compile it, and every instance of
a variable not declared at the beginning of a block produces a compiler
error. I assume this is some recent modification to the C standard that
is certainly reasonable, that the compiler on this machine doesn't have.
But what I'm wondering is why doesn't the configure script catch it?
I'm used to running "./configure" on downloaded tarballs and I assumed
that the 30 seconds to a couple minutes of tests it runs are to ensure
compatibility with the system.
So why doesn't it catch something so basic as a major change to the C
standard in the compiler?
I don't know if this is a coreutils issue or a configure issue or
what, and its not a huge problem, maybe I should update the compiler
suite anyway. But I would like to do what "configure" is for?
- Peter
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