Possible bug report in fileutils-4.1

[Brian Morin]

Hello,

I sincerely hope I found a bug and I'm not wasting anyones time with
something that should have been painfully obvious to deduce.

I downloaded findutils-4.1.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org. I did a standard
'./configure --prefix=/root/local/', it seemed to exit fine, but on the
make I received this:

I've attached the output from the initial make, and config.log, and some
standards about my system.

Thanks for your time.

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 [ /usr/local/src/findutils-4.1 ] > make 
for subdir in lib find xargs locate doc testsuite; do \
  echo making all in $subdir ; \
  (cd $subdir; make all); \
done
making all in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/lib'
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[1]: *** [nextelem.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/lib'
making all in find
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/find'
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib  -g -O find.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib  -g -O fstype.c
fstype.c:34:15: macro "strstr" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
make[1]: *** [fstype.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
find.c: In function `main':
find.c:136: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/find'
making all in xargs
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/xargs'
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib  -g -O xargs.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib  -g -O ../find/version.c
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libfind.a', needed by
`xargs'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
xargs.c:63:15: macro "strstr" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
make[1]: *** [xargs.o] Error 1
making all in locate
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/locate'
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib
-DLOCATE_DB=\"/root/local/var/locatedb\"  -g -O locate.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I../lib
-DLOCATE_DB=\"/root/local/var/locatedb\"  -g -O ../find/version.c
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libfind.a', needed by
`locate'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
locate.c: In function `main':
locate.c:360: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/locate'
making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/doc'
making all in testsuite
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/testsuite'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/findutils-4.1/testsuite'

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--------------------------: config.log

 [ /usr/local/src/findutils-4.1 ] > more config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:725:26: minix/config.h: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsun
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldir
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:1285:23: sys/fstyp.h: No such file or directory
configure:1304:23: sys/fstyp.h: No such file or directory
configure:1324:24: sys/vmount.h: No such file or directory
configure:1804: warning: conflicting types for built-in function
`memcmp'
configure:1804: warning: conflicting types for built-in function
`memset'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lintl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lseq
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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++Brian Morin

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of
the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations."

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