coreutils 5.93 on IRIX 5.3

[Georg Schwarz]

Dear developers,

trying to compile coreutils 5.93 (and 5.92) on IRIX 5.3 yields

cfe: Error: ./stat-time.h, line 93: Type struct timestruc  of returning
expression is incompatible with type struct timespec  of function return
type
   return ((st)-> st_atim) ;
 --^
cfe: Error: ./stat-time.h, line 107: Type struct timestruc  of returning
expression is incompatible with type struct timespec  of function return
type
   return ((st)-> st_ctim) ;
 --^
cfe: Error: ./stat-time.h, line 121: Type struct timestruc  of returning
expression is incompatible with type struct timespec  of function return
type
   return ((st)-> st_mtim) ;
 --^


On IRIX 5.3 /usr/include/sys/stat.h has:

struct  stat {
        dev_t   st_dev;
        long    st_pad1[3];     /* reserved for network id */
        ino_t   st_ino;
        mode_t  st_mode;
        nlink_t st_nlink;
        uid_t   st_uid;
        gid_t   st_gid;
        dev_t   st_rdev;
        long    st_pad2[2];     /* dev and off_t expansion */
        off_t   st_size;
        long    st_pad3;        /* future off_t expansion */
        timestruc_t st_atim;    
        timestruc_t st_mtim;    
        timestruc_t st_ctim;    
        long    st_blksize;
        long    st_blocks;
        char    st_fstype[_ST_FSTYPSZ];
        long    st_pad4[8];     /* expansion area */
};


note the use of imestruc_t.

/usr/include/sys/time.h has

/*
 * Higher resolution time information
 */
typedef struct timestruc {
        time_t  tv_sec;         /* seconds */
        long    tv_nsec;        /* and nanoseconds */
} timestruc_t;


hence the error message.




As an additional note, it would be helpful if configure honored SED as
it honors already GREP. The IRIX 5.3 sed unfortunately in not sufficient
for configure:

...
config.status: creating config.h
sed: command garbled: s,^\([     ]*#[    ]*\)[^  ]*\([   ][
]*_UINT32_T\)[         (].*$,\1define\2 1 ,
sed: command garbled: s,^\([     ]*#[    ]*\)[^  ]*\([   ][
]*HAVE_DECL_GETPASS\)[         (].*$,\1define\2 1 ,
sed: command garbled: s,^\([     ]*#[    ]*\)[^  ]*\([   ][
]*re_set_registers\)[  (].*$,\1define\2 rpl_re_set_registers ,


 GNU sed or NetBSD nbsed works, but one has to manipulate the shell path
to make it being used.


Coreutils 5.21 in contrast compiles fine except that it tries to use
makeinfo:
sh[12]: makeinfo:  not found
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
*** Error code 1 (bu21)


If there is anything else I can do to assist you please let me know.

Georg


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