Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-3.4-almost.19-ff30

[Jeffrey Walton]

Same failure on Fedora 1 with GCC 3.3.2.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:52 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> grep-3.4-almost.19-ff30 fails to build on Ubuntu 4, triplet i686-pc-linux-gnu.
>
> gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
> -I/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/include -DNDEBUG   -g2 -O2 -fPIC
> -pthread -MT fnmatch.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o fnmatch.o
> fnmatch.c &&\
> mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
> In file included from ctype.h:35,
>                  from fnmatch.c:31:
> /usr/include/ctype.h:192: error: parse error before '{' token
> /usr/include/ctype.h:198: error: parse error before '{' token
> In file included from stdlib.h:36,
>                  from fnmatch.c:33:
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:310: error: parse error before '{' token
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:316: error: parse error before '{' token
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:322: error: parse error before '{' token
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:331: error: parse error before '{' token
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:336: error: parse error before '{' token
>
> And:
>
> $ cat -n /usr/include/stdlib.h
> ...
>    307    __BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
>    308    extern __inline double
>    309    strtod (__const char *__restrict __nptr, char **__restrict
> __endptr) __THROW
>    310    {
>    311      return __strtod_internal (__nptr, __endptr, 0);
>    312    }
>    313    extern __inline long int
>    314    strtol (__const char *__restrict __nptr, char **__restrict __endptr,
>    315        int __base) __THROW
>    316    {
>    317      return __strtol_internal (__nptr, __endptr, __base, 0);
>    318    }
>
> And:
>
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)
>
> You should stop pretending that old GCC C compiler can throw...
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-07/msg00059.html
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:37 AM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> >
> > There have been nontrivial changes and fixes and I think we're
> > in a pretty good spot, so I'm planning to release grep-3.5 within
> > the next two weeks.
> >
> > Please build and test this and let us know how it goes.
> >
> > Thanks to Paul Eggert for making so many of the changes here
> > and to Norihiro Tanaka for helping so much with gnulib's dfa.c.
> >
> > grep snapshot:
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.6 MB
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
> >   https://meyering.net/grep/grep-3.4-almost.19-ff30.tar.xz