Re: [Bug-tar] Building on AIX 7.1 with GCC

Eric Blake <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:33:19 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.tar.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.gettext.bugs
Organization	Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[adding gnulib]

On 04/28/2015 08:25 PM, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> Hi,
> Just ran into an issue which affects gzip, gettext & tar on AIX.
> 
> The configure tests for wctype.h & checks for the suitability of
> wctype_t & wctrans_t.
> 
> It detects the presence of wctype.h but wctype_t & wctrans_t are
> unsuitable at which point it tries to use its own bundled copy of
> wctype.h. The build then fails as there's conflicting types for wctype_t
> & wctrans_t.
> 
> In file included from quotearg.c:43:

As this file is maintained upstream in gnulib, fixing the root cause
there will then percolate into all the other affected packages.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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