Re: readline 8.2 FTBFS on FreeBSD/sparc

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/22/24 5:12 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> The problem is that the configure.ac adds the compiler option
> '-Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare' unconditionally.
> However, this option has only been introduced in gcc 4.4, and here
>
> $ gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: sparc64-undermydesk-freebsd
> Configured with: FreeBSD/sparc64 system compiler
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]

Thanks for the report. I'll probably remove this at some point (I
already removed it in bash), but I wish we didn't have to worry
about checking for gcc features that were introduced 15 years ago.

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