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Re: findutils 4.2.27 on IRIX 5.3
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James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: findutils 4.2.27 on IRIX 5.3 |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:32:44 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> > Later versions (1995, I think) of the ANSI C standard require it. The
> > file which you can't compile is part of gnulib, but gnulib only builds
> > on ANSI-standard-compliant systems.
>
> is it possible to build fileutils without gnulib?
Fileutils is now called coreutils and required gnulib. Findutils also
requires gnulib.
> Or is findutils 4.2.23 the end of the road for IRIX5?
If you have a c89-compliant system, which I guess IRIX5+gcc is, then I
believe that gnulib will continue to support it.
So, if we can get a tested patch to the one file that doesn't compile,
so that the code builds on IRIX5, there's every chance to continue
supporting IRIX5 in findutils-4.2.28 and/or findutils-4.3.0.
Because I don't have access to an IRIX5 box, I can't test a patch so
I'm relying on you to do that.
Regards,
James.