Re: coreutils 6.6 HP-UX build error

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:

> I got the following error (in gnulib) building coreutils 6.6 on HP-UX.
>
>> source='fts.c' object='fts.o' libtool=no \
>>         DEPDIR=.deps depmode=hp /bin/sh ../build-aux/depcomp \
>>         cc  -I.   -I/home/install/gnu/hp700_hpux/include   -g -c fts.c
>> cc: "fts.c", line 734: error 1654: Expression type is too large for switch 
>> expression.
>> cc: "fts.c", line 736: error 1653: Case label too big for the type of the 
>> switch expression
>> cc: "fts.c", line 739: error 1653: Case label too big for the type of the 
>> switch expression
>
> I'm suggesting the following patch (formed by hand, sorry if the line
> numbers are off!):

Thanks for the report and patch.
What version of HP-UX (and, if possible, the compiler) is that?
It must be rather old.
I know the existing code compiles fine with the compilers
from HP-UX 11.11 and HP-UX 11.23.