file 4.22 build fails on Solaris 9 due to strtof()

[Christos Zoulas]

On Dec 27,  1:27pm, Zube at CS.ColoState.EDU (Zube) wrote:
-- Subject: file 4.22 build fails on Solaris 9 due to strtof()

| On Solaris 9 sparc fully patched, building with gcc 3.4.6:
| 
| gmake[2]: Entering directory `/stat/src/file/file-4.22/src'
| /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -O2   -o file file.o libmagic.la -lz 
| gcc -O2 -o .libs/file file.o  ./.libs/libmagic.so -lz -R/usr/local/lib
| Undefined                       first referenced
|  symbol                             in file
| strtof                              ./.libs/libmagic.so
| ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/file
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| 
| strtof() seems to have crept into apprentice.c (it wasn't in file 4.21),
| but I don't think Solaris 9 has it.


I will add configure tests for it:

 The strtod() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'').  The
 strtof() and strtold() functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').

christos