On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 03:25:03PM -0700, Collin Funk wrote: > Bruno Haible via Bug reports for the GNU Texinfo documentation system > <bug-texinfo@gnu.org> writes: > > > The CI now reports a compilation error on Solaris 11.4, during "make check", > > that was not present 3 days ago: > > > > Making check in info > > make check-am > > make pseudotty > > gcc -m64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../info -I.. -I../.. > > -I../../gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib > > -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" > > -DINFODIR=\"/usr/local/share/info\" > > -DINFODIR2=\"/usr/local/share/info\" > > -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -Wall -Wno-unused-function -D_REENTRANT > > -g -O2 -MT pseudotty.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/pseudotty.Tpo -c -o pseudotty.o > > ../../info/pseudotty.c > > In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:667, > > from ../gnulib/lib/sys/types.h:46, > > from ../gnulib/lib/stdio.h:83, > > from ../gnulib/lib/error.h:47, > > from ../../info/pseudotty.c:27: > > ../../info/pseudotty.c: In function ‘main’: > > ../../info/pseudotty.c:130:3: error: implicit declaration of function > > ‘memset’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] > > 130 | FD_ZERO (&read_set); > > | ^~~~~~~ > > ../../info/pseudotty.c:41:1: note: include ‘<string.h>’ or provide a > > declaration of ‘memset’ > > 40 | #include "termdep.h" > > +++ |+#include <string.h> > > 41 | > > *** Error code 1 > > This will occur on AIX 7.1 as well based on the Gnulib manual [1]: > > This header file is not self-contained—it requires <string.h> before > FD_ZERO can be used—on some platforms: AIX 7.1, Solaris 11.4. > > The 'sys_select-h' module fixes it. But I think Texinfo tries to avoid > the header modules because of them not working well with libperl, IIRC. > > Collin > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/sys_002fselect_002eh.html >
Thank you both. It should be fixed in commit 6e582db42d. I had removed the include directive in commit 10dc89bc305c (2025-07-22 00:56:07 +0100) after an attempt to remove unneeded includes. I had missed why <string.h> might have been needed. On the subject of sys/select.h, the libc Texinfo manual appears to be out of date: "A better solution is to use the select function. This blocks the program until input or output is ready on a specified set of file descriptors, or until a timer expires, whichever comes first. This facility is declared in the header file sys/types.h." https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Waiting-for-I_002fO.html There's no mention of sys/select.h there. I couldn't find why this might have been in the time I spent researching it, although it seemed that the needed header file could have changed over time. That's confirmed by the gnulib documentation that says the header doesn't exist on a small number of systems.
