Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, at 6:50 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Zack Weinberg wrote:
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(N.B. The Savannah URLs look a little too cgit-specific to trust
that they will still be good twenty years from now. Can we maybe
get the www.gnu.org admins to make /software/???/con
Specifically, eliminate all uses of implicit function declarations and
of old-style function definitions for functions that take arguments.
Many of the C programs embedded in config.guess are only used on very
old systems that may never have had an ISO C compiler (other than GCC,
which we cannot a
From: Petr Vorel
Implicit ‘int’ (e.g. ‘extern foo();’ meaning the same thing as
‘extern int foo();’) was dropped from the C standard in its 1999
edition. Twenty-five years later, free C compilers are finally
starting to make this an error by default, so let’s not use it
anymore in config.guess p
If we get to the bottom of the big switch in config.guess without
having a guess, we try two things, in this order:
- Compiling and running a C program that knows about a bunch of
really old systems that did not have a uname command.
- A specific test for Apollo systems, which doesn’t require a
The output now varies based on which of three different situations is
detected:
1. If config.guess’s embedded timestamp is more than three years old,
we instruct the user to update it from Savannah, and we don’t say
anything else.
2. If we tried to use a C compiler but none was found (not j
Round 2 of my and Petr Vorel's patch set to polish up config.guess
a little. The first two patches are the most important, as they
future-proof config.guess against new C compilers that object to
implicit int and/or old-style function definitions.
The second two attempt to address a user experien
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, at 6:50 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>The duplicate uname -m/-r/-s/-v output is replaced with
>>diagnostics of the availability of uname and a C compiler.
>
> I would suggest keeping the duplicate uname output; config.guess is
> straightforward bu
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, at 6:25 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> -$CC_FOR_BUILD -o "$dummy" "$dummy.c" &&
>> - dummyarg=`echo "$UNAME_RELEASE" | sed -n 's/\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p'` &&
>> - SYSTEM_NAME=`"$dummy" "$dummyarg"` &&
>> +SYSTEM_TYPE="`$CC_FOR_BUILD -E - < "$du
