Dear Tar maintenace team, I'm writing this about a compile error of tar 1.19 under the platform Solaris 2.8. I'm not sure such an old operating system is still supported but I report the problem in any way.
When I ran "./configure ; make", I obtained the following message.
if gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT strerror.o -MD
-MP -MF "$depbase.Tpo" -c -o strerror.o strerror.c; \
then mv -f "$depbase.Tpo" "$depbase.Po"; else rm -f "$depbase.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
strerror.c: In function 'rpl_strerror':
strerror.c:32: error: 'CHAR_BIT' undeclared (first use in this function)
strerror.c:32: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
strerror.c:32: error: for each function it appears in.)
I moved "#include <limits.h>" in lib/strerror.c as follows (output of
diff -u) and "make" successfully completed in Solaris 8 (However, I
have NOT tested it under any other platform).
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diff -u lib/strerror.c~ lib/strerror.c
--- lib/strerror.c~ 2007-09-28 22:11:37.000000000 +0900
+++ lib/strerror.c 2008-01-12 12:52:26.339457000 +0900
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
#include <config.h>
+#include <limits.h>
#if REPLACE_STRERROR
@@ -43,7 +44,6 @@
#elif !HAVE_STRERROR
-#include <limits.h>
/* Don't include <stdio.h>, since it may or may not declare
sys_errlist and its declarations may collide with ours. Just
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For your information, some information on my platform are:
% uname -a
SunOS mathpc-satoh 5.8 Generic_117350-51 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
% gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Configured with: /usr/local/src/gcc-4.1.1/configure --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
--with-cpu=v8 --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1
%
Output of ./configure and config.h are attached in the gzipped format.
I hope this e-mail is of some use to you.
Yours faithfully,
Takakazu Satoh.
configout.txt.gz
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