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 <sata...@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
