On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 12:27 PM Lucy Phipps <landfillbab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Lucy Phipps <landfillbab...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:25 AM > Subject: Re: #include <stdio.h> on Android clang causes an error > To: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > > it works perfectly now! and yeah i was planning on applying this to > several gnu packages :) > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 8:12 AM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > > > Your latest report helped me find another portability problem. > > Ironically, a compatibility feature in Android API 23 intended to make > > it easier porting GNU software by assuming the GNU API for strerror_r, > > collided with a compatibility feature in Gnulib intended to make it > > easier to port GNU software by assuming the POSIX API for strerror_r. > > > > I installed a Gnulib patch to fix that (you should have received email a > > few hours ago), and am attaching a revised gzip tarball. Please give it > > a try. > > > > Thanks again for these reports. They should help make it easier to run > > several GNU programs on Android, not just gzip.
Thanks indeed, to both of you. This is good justification for making a new gzip release before long.
