Re: Compiling coreutils-5.0 on a Mac Powerbook under OS X

[John Lowe]

In message <87oei8446c.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>, Paul Eggert 
<eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes
> John Lowe <jrnl@bytetype.co.uk> writes:
>
> > strftime.c:63: header file 'wchar.h' not found
>
> Does the following patch to lib/strftime.c fix things for you?
>
> --- strftime.c 2003-09-29 23:44:01 -0700
> +++ /tmp/strftime.c    2004-11-08 09:53:22 -0800
> @@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ extern char *tzname[];
>    conversion specifications.  The GNU C Library uses UTF8 multibyte
>    encoding, which is safe for formats, but strftime.c can be used
>    with other C libraries that use unsafe encodings.  */
> -#define DO_MULTIBYTE (HAVE_MBLEN && ! MULTIBYTE_IS_FORMAT_SAFE)
> +#define DO_MULTIBYTE (HAVE_MBLEN && HAVE_WCHAR_H && ! 
> MULTIBYTE_IS_FORMAT_SAFE)
>
> #if DO_MULTIBYTE
> -# if HAVE_MBRLEN
> +# if HAVE_MBRLEN && HAVE_WCHAR_H
> #  include <wchar.h>
> # else
>    /* Simulate mbrlen with mblen as best we can.  */

Yes that does work.
--
John Lowe
jrnl@bytetype.co.uk