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At 11:30 AM 6/25/2002 +0200, Martin Vorlaender wrote: >In this round, I started building on Alpha. $@CONFIGURE "-des" >was okay there, but subsequently bombed out on the VAX. I don't >pretend to understand that... > >After applying Peter's patch, the VAX happily munched CONFIGURE, too. OK, well a tiny bit of progress is still progress. >The builds failed at the exact same positions as they had before. I wonder if your Alpha build would go better with -"Uuseieee" passed to configure.com on the command line or answering no to the configuration question that asks if you want to use IEEE math. I'm suspecting that the headers and/or the C RTL in pre-7.0 systems didn't have the kinks worked out of IEEE support. Your VAX compile failure is in some ways more alarming. This comment from stat.h on a syatem with OpenVMS Alpha 7.1, DEC C 5.2, may shed some light on the issue: ** ISO POSIX-1 defines off_t to be a signed arithmetic type, and ** requires the st_size field to be of type off_t. DEC C V5.0 ** and prior declared the field as unsigned. The compiler error you quoted did appear to have off_t declared as unsigned, which would suggest your headers are out-of-date with respect to your compiler. This would really surprise me since I think you work your C compiler harder than most of us :-). Do you by any chance have VAX C and DEC C both on the same system, or could there be some other problem with your header text libraries?Thread Previous | Thread Next