Hello Tom, > I ran into a build error when building GNU m4 1.4.16 with the SGI > compiler on IRIX 5.3 and 6.2. > The problem turned out to be in verror.h from gnulib. It uses the > __attribute__ format directive directly instead of the usual > _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT macro.
Oops, that's a bug I introduced on 2011-02-13. I'm applying this fix. Thanks for the report! 2011-03-20 Bruno Haible <[email protected]> verror: Fix compilation error introduced on 2011-02-13. * lib/verror.h (verror, verror_at_line): Use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT macro instead of __attribute__. Reported by Tom G. Christensen <[email protected]>. --- lib/verror.h.orig Sun Mar 20 22:31:36 2011 +++ lib/verror.h Sun Mar 20 22:31:06 2011 @@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ #ifndef _VERROR_H #define _VERROR_H 1 -#include "error.h" #include <stdarg.h> +#include "error.h" /* for _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT */ + #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif @@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ extern void verror (int __status, int __errnum, const char *__format, va_list __args) - __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0))); + _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT ((__printf__, 3, 0)); /* Print a message with `vfprintf (stderr, FORMAT, ARGS)'; if ERRNUM is nonzero, follow it with ": " and strerror (ERRNUM). @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ extern void verror_at_line (int __status, int __errnum, const char *__fname, unsigned int __lineno, const char *__format, va_list __args) - __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 5, 0))); + _GL_ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT ((__printf__, 5, 0)); #ifdef __cplusplus } -- In memoriam Jan Nepomucký <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Nepomuk>
