Hi Benno, > > Can you confirm that you can use a newer GCC on Haiku, and that therefore > > said > > change was not actually needed? > > I couldn't find it on the site of Haiku, but finally found on the ffmpeg > site that one can get a newer gcc (5.4.0 at the moment) on Haiku by making > sure that "/system/bin/x86" is at the beginning of PATH: > > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Haiku > > With that gcc, nano can be compiled on Haiku without a problem, also with > current gnulib. So the change of the above patch is not needed for those > who know where a less ancient toolchain hides itself on a Haiku system.
Thanks for the confirmation. So we're only losing IRIX cc, not Haiku, by assuming C99 or newer. Bruno