Re: Missing mbstate_t.m4 file in regex module

[Jim Meyering]

Ton Voon <address@hidden> wrote:
> We've found that the regex module is missing the mbstate_t.m4 file,
> because it causes this compile error on HP-UX:
>
> cc: "regex_internal.h", line 375: error 1000: Unexpected symbol:
> "mbstate_t".
>
> This addition into modules/regex appears to be sufficient:
>
> Files:
> m4/mbstate_t.m4
>
> configure.ac:
> AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T

That looks good.

However, please tell us more about the build environment
that requires this change.  That will be an important part
of documenting the fix: the ChangeLog entry will tell others
whether this is required with gcc or vendor-cc (and which version),
and on which version(s) of HP-UX.