Hi Paul,
Trying to compile coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.11 with gcc 4.2.4, I get this
link error:
CCLD od
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
strtof (first referenced in ../lib/libcoreutils.a(ftoastr.o)) (code)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[3]: *** [od] Error 1
The reason is that, as documented in doc/posix-functions/strtof.texi, the
function strtof() is not defined on many platforms, including HP-UX 11,
and gnulib provides no workaround.
Testing whether strtof() exists and modifying the condition in
lib/ftoastr.c:64 should be sufficient to fix this. Something like this:
#if (LENGTH > 2 && ! HAVE_C99_STRTOLD) || (LENGTH == 1 && !HAVE_STRTOF)
# undef STRTOF
# define STRTOF strtod
#endif
Bruno
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