I sync'd coreutils to use the latest from gnulib and tried to build. To my horror, I saw this:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors readtokens.c: In function 'readtoken': readtokens.c:118: error: implicit declaration of function 'x2nrealloc' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] readtokens.c:118: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast readtokens.c: In function 'readtokens': readtokens.c:166: error: implicit declaration of function 'xnmalloc' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] readtokens.c:166: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast readtokens.c:167: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast readtokens.c:177: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast readtokens.c:178: error: implicit declaration of function 'xnrealloc' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] readtokens.c:178: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast readtokens.c:188: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make[4]: *** [readtokens.o] Error 1 I fixed it with the following: >From 816a1ec4c989ffea4a462978db076c2f4322b730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:38:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] readtokens: this module *does* require xalloc.h It uses only functions that were omitted by the old syntax-check rule. * lib/readtokens.c: Include "xalloc.h" once again. * modules/readtokens (Depends-on): Add xalloc. This reverts part of 0e0f8f12ec241c0f1c1f21f960bb5cf908a0fa3c. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ lib/readtokens.c | 2 ++ modules/readtokens | 1 + 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 80f3988..ae5e1a0 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2010-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> + + readtokens: this module *does* require xalloc.h + It uses only functions that were omitted by the old syntax-check rule. + * lib/readtokens.c: Include "xalloc.h" once again. + * modules/readtokens (Depends-on): Add xalloc. + This reverts part of 0e0f8f12ec241c0f1c1f21f960bb5cf908a0fa3c. + 2010-01-05 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> maint: support 'make announcement' from a VPATH build diff --git a/lib/readtokens.c b/lib/readtokens.c index 8172eb1..e29f20e 100644 --- a/lib/readtokens.c +++ b/lib/readtokens.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ #include <string.h> #include <stdbool.h> +#include "xalloc.h" + #if USE_UNLOCKED_IO # include "unlocked-io.h" #endif diff --git a/modules/readtokens b/modules/readtokens index d593b8f..9453de9 100644 --- a/modules/readtokens +++ b/modules/readtokens @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ lib/readtokens.c m4/readtokens.m4 Depends-on: +xalloc stdbool configure.ac: -- 1.6.6.387.g2649b1