Re: [Bug-gnulib] K&R C or ANSI C89 ?

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> I suspect that Emacs is still supposed to build with K&R C on older
> platforms.

emacs-21.1 looks as if could with with a K&R compiler, indeed.

Furthermore, it appears that recent gccs (since 3.0) don't build on
Sunos4 anyway, see
   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2002-05/msg00844.html

> Autoconf currently does not support SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and probably 4.1.2
> and 4.1.3 due to /bin/sh bugs

... and autoconf is needed for nearly every package. Whereas gettext
is optional.

So I'll convert gettext to ANSI C soon. Go, PARAMS, go...

> Since even Sun is dropping support for SunOS 4, I think it's quite all
> right if the GNU project does too.

I'll look into dropping K&R support from gnulib/lib, as long as it
makes things easier, except for the parts that are needed by emacs:
getopt, alloca, getpagesize.

Bruno