Re: making coreutils depend on c99

2006-01-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:51:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: So, people building coreutils will have a choice: apply the c99-c89 patch or install a modern compiler and use that instead of the vendor-supplied one. There are two issues with C99, compiler

Re: making coreutils depend on c99

2006-01-29 Thread Albert Chin
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:17:37PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Albert Chin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:51:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: So, people building coreutils will have a choice: apply the c99-c89 patch or install a modern compiler and use that instead of

Re: making coreutils depend on c99

2005-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do any of you know of platforms for which that would not work? I.e., for which there is a useful (or better, `essential') compiler lacking such support? GCC 2.95.3 is still the C compiler for OpenBSD 3.6 (released

making coreutils depend on c99

2005-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
I want to make coreutils/src/*.c depend on c99, at least for the ability to intermix statements and declarations and to be able to declare variables in `for' loops. Do any of you know of platforms for which that would not work? I.e., for which there is a useful (or better, `essential') compiler

Re: making coreutils depend on c99

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do any of you know of platforms for which that would not work? I.e., for which there is a useful (or better, `essential') compiler lacking such support? GCC 2.95.3 is still the C compiler for OpenBSD 3.6 (released November 2004), and it doesn't support