bug#21700: new snapshot available: grep-2.21.78-7da30

[Aaron Davies]

I ran into this trying to build current coreutils on Solaris with sun studio 11

the workaround I found was to use sun studio 12

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> On Oct 18, 2015, at 2:34 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I ran into a problem with this release on Solaris 10 with Sun C 5.13:
> 
>  CC       fts.o
> "fts.c", line 1915: warning: type of struct member "__b" can not be derived 
> fro\
> m structure with flexible array member
> "fts.c", line 1915: warning: type of struct member "__b" can not be derived 
> fro\
> m structure with flexible array member
> 
> This is due to the use of Gnulib alignof to calculate the alignment of a 
> struct with a flexible array member; the Gnulib implementation doesn't 
> support this on C99 (it violates a C99 constraint).  I'll look into a 
> workaround within fts.
> 
> I did manage a build on AIX with xlc; works OK.
> 
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