Re: Build failure on AIX 4.3

[Daniel Richard G.]

Jim,

That did the trick. The coreutils tarball you provided builds (and tests) 
without a hitch on the same AIX 4.3 system.

Thanks for the fix :)


--Daniel


On Mon, 2007 Jan 15 16:41:04 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the report and analysis.
> Here's a proposed patch for the gnulib readutmp module:
> 
>       * m4/readutmp.m4 (gl_READUTMP): Work around AIX 4.3 struct-
>         redefinition bug when using both <utmp.h> and <utmpx.h> headers.
>       * lib/readutmp.h: Likewise.  Reported by Daniel Richard G. in
>       <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/9415>.
> 
> Here's a test tarball with that patch and all of the latest bits,
> in case that makes it easier for you to test:
> 
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.7-dirty.tar.gz.sig
> 
> Please try it and let us know.
> 

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