Re: Wget 1.21.1 on old PowerMac

[Tim Rühsen]

On 07.03.21 06:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.)

TY, Ryan !

@Jeff Could you add the 'c99' gnulib module to bootstrap.conf and
restart with the bootstrap step (and report back if it worked).
If that is the case, I'll add it.

Regards, Tim