The answer seems to be simple: add -fgnu89-inline, which will be available
for gcc >= 4.1.3 (not yet released) according to the info files in the
trunk.
BTW, the two OSes I tried the GCC trunk on (FC5 and MinGW) both had
problems of their own with this change of semantics. AFAICS, wchar.h in
As even 4.2.0 is not released yet, we will make changes at an appropriate
time. The GNU and C99 semantics for 'inline' are known to be
incompatible.
>From src/include/Rinlinedfuns.h:
/* this header is always to be included from others.
It is only called if COMPILING_R is defined (in util.c
