[Tcsh] tcsh-6.24.14 is now available

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On 2024/11/26 21:15:52 +0200, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce that tcsh-6.24.14 is available.  This release
> fixes issues with S-JIS handling.  It also adds redirection handling in
> bracketed expressions, and history searches in history expansion.
> 
> Tcsh is an enhanced version of the Berkeley C-shell that offers command
> line editing and completion plus many other little things that preserve
> the length of your fingers.
> 
> Tcsh runs on most UNIX machines, as well as Windows.
> 
> You can get tcsh from http://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.24.14.tar.gz
> 
> SHA2-256(tcsh-6.24.14.tar.gz)= 36880f258a63fc11fe72a65098b585ebc4ecdee24388b8ebec97e6ae8e485318
> 
> The latest source is also on GitHub: https://github.com/tcsh-org/tcsh
> 
> Binaries for Debian and Ubuntu: https://deb.tcsh.org

This breaks build on 32bit architectures:

diff -urp tcsh-6.24.13/config_f.h tcsh-6.24.14/config_f.h
--- tcsh-6.24.13/config_f.h     2024-06-12 09:47:58.753288937 +0200
+++ tcsh-6.24.14/config_f.h     2024-11-28 09:44:03.712332824 +0100
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
  */
 #if defined (SHORT_STRINGS) && defined (NLS) && !defined (WINNT_NATIVE) && !defined(_OSD_POSIX) && SIZEOF_WCHAR_T > 1
 # define WIDE_STRINGS
-# if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T < 4
+# if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T <= 4
 #  define UTF16_STRINGS
 # endif
 #endif

now we have


[   18s] sh.file.c: In function ‘compare’:
[   18s] sh.file.c:596:21: error: passing argument 1 of ‘wcscoll’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
[   18s]   596 |     return (wcscoll(*(Char *const *) p, *(Char *const *) q));
[   18s]       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[   18s]       |                     |
[   18s]       |                     Char * {aka unsigned int *}
[   18s]       |                                         Char * {aka unsigned int *}
[   18s] /usr/include/wchar.h:155:57: note: expected ‘const wchar_t *’ {aka ‘const long int *’} but argument is of type ‘Char *’ {aka ‘unsigned int *’}
[   18s]   155 | extern int wcscoll (const wchar_t *__s1, const wchar_t *__s2) __THROW;


to be honest I do/can not care about S-JIS in comparision to modern UTF-8

Werner

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