The coreutils-4.5.9 build with native c89 on SGI IRIX 6.5 failed
like this:
c89 -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.
-I/usr/local/include -g -c `test -f 'getcwd.c' || echo './'`getcwd.c
cc-1140 c89: ERROR File = getcwd.c, Line = 59
A value of type "int" cannot be used to initialize an entity of type "char
*".
char *cwd = getcwd (buf, size);
^
1 error detected in the compilation of "getcwd.c".
The reason is that the prototype for getcwd is not visible in the c89
environment.
I added a suitable prototype:
diff lib/getcwd.c.~1~ lib/getcwd.c
38a39,40
> extern char *(getcwd)(char *, size_t);
>
restarted the make, and all of the validation tests then passed.
My patch is a temporary hack. configure already does some getcwd
tests:
checking whether getcwd (NULL, 0) allocates memory for result... no
checking for getcwd... yes
checking whether getcwd properly handles paths longer than PATH_MAX... yes
It just needs to make one more check for declaration of that function,
and if it isn't found, supply one similar to mine above [the
parentheses around getcwd are needed because the code has
#undef getcwd
just before that].
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