[gettext] Re: Comments on grep-2.3

[Bruno Haible]

Nelson Beebe wrote on 1999-11-05:

> cc -ansi -O2 -mips2 -c -DLOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale" 
> -DGNULOCALEDIR="/usr/local/share/locale"
-DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH="/usr/local/share/locale:." -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I..
-I. -I../intl -I../lib    bindtextdom.c
> cfe: Error: bindtextdom.c, line 116: Type int  of rhs of assignment expression
is incompatible with type unsigned char *  of lhs (3.3.16.1)
> new_dirname = strdup (dirname);
> ------------------^
> cfe: Error: bindtextdom.c, line 148: Type int  of rhs of assignment expression
is incompatible with type unsigned char *  of lhs (3.3.16.1)
> new_binding->domainname = strdup (domainname);
> ------------------------------^
> cfe: Error: bindtextdom.c, line 164: Type int  of rhs of assignment expression
is incompatible with type unsigned char *  of lhs (3.3.16.1)
> new_binding->dirname = strdup (dirname);
> -----------------------^

Using the -ansi flag causes the include files to be virtually empty.
You cannot expect that GNU software compiles correctly when you use
this flag.

Bruno