Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> Wow, that sounds horribly broken. >> >> Yes, but it's also working as designed :) We're erroring because the C >> library headers on the OS aren't C99-compliant. That it would apply to >> only git.git's sources was only ever wishful thinking. > > No, C library supporting only C11 is perfectly fine. On such a > system, the compiler shouldn't even support -std=gnu99. That is > what I consider broken. Or, the system headers should be arranged in such a way that depending on __STDC_VERSION__, it should refrain from using features of the language that is not supported. So supporting -std=gnu99 in their compilers may not be a bug---but in that case, their system headers are buggy. Anyway. I think <xmqqzgny7xo7.fsf@gitster.g> shows a viable way forward.
