<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello everybody,<div><br></div><div>Anthony has been doing some work using newer hosts, and attempting to fix whatever problems arise when building the cross-tools.</div><div><br></div><div>Up front is m4. Since newer hosts are starting to use glibc 2.16 or later, using fgets rather than gets.</div><div><BEGIN PATCH></div><div><pre>--- a/lib/stdio.in.h
+++ b/lib/stdio.in.h
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@
so any use of gets warrants an unconditional warning. Assume it is
always declared, since it is required by C89. */
#undef gets
-_GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
#if @GNULIB_FOPEN@
# if @REPLACE_FOPEN@</pre><pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; "><END PATCH></span></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">We can add that patch to cross-tools m4 for now for any host. M4 should build for hosts using glibc before 2.16. Still testing.</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Any other issues people have ran across? Used to, hosts using gcc 4.7 or later, and trying to build our version of gcc 4.6.3 would bomb at building gengtypes.c</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">However our current branch updates patch for gcc 4.6.3 takes it to a revision where the issues with that and some other bugs were backported and fixed.</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">That's all I can think of for now.</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><br></span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Sincerely,</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">William Harrington</span></font></pre></div></body></html>