Re: Wget 1.21.1 on old PowerMac

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 6, 2021, at 22:46, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I'm building Wget 1.21.1 on an old PowerMac with OS X 10.5. Debian
> still lacks a stable image for the G5's, so I keep using Apple's OS X.
> 
> $ make
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in lib
> make  all-am
>  ...
>  CC       malloc/dynarray_resize_clear.o
>  CC       glthread/lock.o
>  CC       tempname.o
> tempname.c: In function 'random_bits':
> tempname.c:92: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
> tempname.c:92: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90
> tempname.c: In function 'try_tempname_len':
> tempname.c:290: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
> make[3]: *** [tempname.o] Error 1

You already reported that 2 months ago.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2021-01/msg00004.html

I believe it was decided that it was a gnulib bug. (wget requires C99 and 
gnulib fails to enforce that requirement by adding the -std=c99 flag.)