Possible make bug? Or just missing something? - findutils

[Alex Hathaway]

Hello most appreciated GNU wizard type people :)

 

Below is an error I get when trying to make findutils-4.1 form the lib directory (all else so far compiles ok)

 

gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O regex.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O dirname.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O error.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O filemode.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O getopt.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O getopt1.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O idcache.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O listfile.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O modechange.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.  -g -O nextelem.c
nextelem.c:35: parse error before `__extension__'
nextelem.c:35: `__len' undeclared here (not in a function)
nextelem.c:35: initializer element is not constant
nextelem.c:35: parse error before `if'
nextelem.c:35: conflicting types for `__retval'
nextelem.c:35: previous declaration of `__retval'
nextelem.c:35: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
nextelem.c:35: parse error before `}'
make: *** [nextelem.o] Error 1

 

nextelem.c doesn't contain references to __extension__ so I'm unsure where it's pulling from
The build is being done on RedHat 7.1 using gcc version "gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)"

 

Any pointers into the right direction would be appreciated.

 

Sincerely your code slave,

 

Alex H.