-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Steven Schweda has started some testing on Tru64, and uncovered some >> interesting quirks; some of them look like flaws I've introduced, >> and others are bugginess in the Tru64 environment itself. It's >> proving very helpful. :) > > Is the exchange off-list or on a list I'm not following? I'm somewhat > interested in portability myself, so I'd like to follow it.
Sorry, yes, it was spawned in response to a private mail where I indicated this would be a good time to get his VMS-compatibility fixes in for 1.12. He responded by pulling down the latest dev sources and letting them break against his (somewhat VMS-like) Tru64 system :) Lessee... I've applied his fix for the fact that sysdep.h #includes <inttypes.h> and expects it to correctly #include <stdint.h> as well (which, on Tru64, it strangely doesn't). This was easily fixed by adding that in as well. The build environment also (barely) fails to provide a C99-conformant stdbool.h, failing in an obscure case. Gnulib's provided stdbool.h then also fails, because it uses an enumeration to define true and false (#undefining and the #defining them is an "obsolescent feature" according to the standard); however, the Tru64 compilation environment apparently doesn't like their use as other-than-keywords, even when the system stdbool.h hasn't been #included. This has been reported to the Autoconf folks (for suggested changes to the "is stdbool.h provided" tests), and some of the thread is crossposted to the bug-gnulib, to resolve the fact that the provided stdbool.h breaks. The new maint.mk file, included by GNUmakefile, providing special targets for sanity-checking by the maintainer, breaks on old versions of gzip (while performing a feature test). Steven has reported this to bug-gnulib as well; apparently a fix had already been applied for coreutils, but not given back to the gnulib folks (they have diverging maint.mk's). There appears to be a build issue on systems that do not have gettext/libintl installed. I'm investigating that on an OpenBSD install right now; but was hung up on an issue with my autoconf install that was exhibiting some bugs in generating our configure script. I replaced the from-source install with the OpenBSD ports package, which solved the issue; perhaps later I'll investigate what has going on more closely, but in the meantime, I'm trying to debug Wget, not Autoconf. :) I think that sums up the problems discovered so far. - Provided stdbool.h breaks on compilers that want to treat true and false as keywords - maint.mk breaks with old gzip versions - Old broken HP systems have inttypes.h that doesn't #include stdint.h - The current handling of lack-of-gettext looks like it may be broken The first three are trivial fixes we already have (and one of which has been applied at this time); the gettext thing is probably something broken in my invocation of gettext configuration stuff in configure.ac. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGwC47M8hyUobTrERCKFcAJ9hVGgH55qktFhMD6z0rtVzxYN5XACfbPf7 XwkQnqtOf5qJ5//KEw8H2GA= =MJJp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
