Re: coreutils 7.1.49-ebb9 FTB risc/HP-UX

[Jim Meyering]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> If someone cares enough about HP's C compiler, they teach
>> autoconf to detect this limitation and automatically add an
>> appropriate -H option, presumably to raise its internal limit.
>
> I'd love to help, but as mentioned, I have *no* idea how to feed
> options to cc so that it passes them to cpp.

For you to get past this, try ./configure CPPFLAGS=-H...
where you choose the "..." part.

> That said, trying to parse 8k worth of macro doesn't seem just a
> /touch/ excessive? ;-)

IMHO, not at all.

>> In the mean time, can you use gcc on that system?
>
> I have... gcc 2.8.1:
...
> /usr/include/wchar.h:54: warning: `WEOF' redefined
> wchar.h:114: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> In file included from acl.h:20,

Ok.  let's not go there ;-)