I am an idiot...

[jsbowden]

Note to self:

When compiling software written to C99 standards, call the compiler so it actually knows it's SUPPOSED to be parsing ANSI code, not K&R.

That is all.

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[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I'm not writing any code. I'm just trying to compile current versions of all the GNU software I have in /usr/local (which is an NFS share to all the SGIs on my network). Some of these utils I orginally compiled 6 years ago on Irix 6.2 on an Indy. The problem is that current SGI MIPSpro compilers behave differently depending how you call them, instead of the old way of setting CFLAGS="set your magic incantation for [ANSI|C90|C99] here". Last time I went through this, I could just set /etc/compiler.defaults to the way I wanted it and only override via environment variable if necessary for a specific piece of software. Last time I went through this, most of the GNU stuff that didn't require GCC was still primarily K&R or plain ANSI, which the compiler is generally smart enough to deal with on it's own. It's the newer ANSI [C90|C99] code that's making life interesting. That it can't seem to automagically handle.