make failed for me: - non-root - Solaris 10: $ uname -a SunOS avanti 5.10 Generic_127111-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
- Compiler: $ cc -V cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 - ./configure --prefix=/user/ecs2 --disable-nls - Make output snippet: CC sort.o "sort.c", line 1705: syntax error before or at: [ "sort.c", line 1709: invalid type combination "sort.c", line 1709: warning: initialization type mismatch "sort.c", line 1709: non-constant initializer: op "NAME" "sort.c", line 1838: cannot recover from previous errors cc: acomp failed for sort.c *** Error code 2 The following command caused the error: echo " CC " sort.o; \ source='sort.c' object='sort.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../build-aux/depcomp \ cc -I. -I../lib -I../lib -g -c sort.c make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sort.o' Code place (src/sort.c): 1704 static const char orders [UCHAR_LIM] = { 1705 ['K']=1, ['M']=2, ['G']=3, ['T']=4, ['P']=5, ['E']=6, ['Z']=7, ['Y']=8, 1706 ['k']=1, 1707 }; I don't know if Solaris plus the Sun compiler collection is supposed to be supported by the coreutils team, but I didn't have problems with older versions (e.g. 6.10). I'd be happy if I could continue using GNU coreutils on that platform ;-) Need more info? Have a nice day, Berny