Re: Error with gnulib and i686 with older kernels

[Satadru Pramanik]

Tom Troney's patch in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2022-04/msg00075.html
solves this for us.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 4:59 PM Satadru Pramanik <satadru@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I am building gnulib via a 3rd party project (pax-utils) on a i686
> system with 3.8 kernel headers.
>
> I get this error. This is a recent regression causing the following
> build failure. Any idea where I should start to look to get this
> fixed?
>
> make[3]: Entering directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4/autotools/gnulib'
> make[4]: Entering directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4/autotools/gnulib'
>   CC       libgnu_a-openat-proc.o
>   CC       libgnu_a-chdir-long.o
>   CC       libgnu_a-basename-lgpl.o
>   CC       libgnu_a-cloexec.o
> In file included from /usr/local/include/string.h:630,
>                  from ./string.h:41,
>                  from basename-lgpl.c:25:
> ./string.h:1091:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘__extension__’
>  1091 | _GL_FUNCDECL_SYS (strndup, char *,
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:2381: libgnu_a-basename-lgpl.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> In file included from /usr/local/include/string.h:630,
>                  from ./string.h:41,
>                  from openat-proc.c:30:
> ./string.h:1091:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘__extension__’
>  1091 | _GL_FUNCDECL_SYS (strndup, char *,
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:2367: libgnu_a-openat-proc.o] Error 1
> In file included from /usr/local/include/string.h:630,
>                  from ./string.h:41,
>                  from chdir-long.c:27:
> ./string.h:1091:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘__extension__’
>  1091 | _GL_FUNCDECL_SYS (strndup, char *,
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:2409: libgnu_a-chdir-long.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4/autotools/gnulib'
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:4017: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4/autotools/gnulib'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:2143: all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4/autotools/gnulib'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:2051: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/usr/local/tmp/crew/pax_utils.20220429204445.dir/pax-utils-1.3.4'
> make: *** [Makefile:1781: all] Error 2