bug#80205: Problem building coreutils-9.9 on Fedora 44

[George R Goffe via GNU coreutils Bug Reports]

Howdy,

I must apologize for missing your emails regarding this bug.

The link for the file you sent had expired so I removed the filename part and 
got a directory. I chose the coreutils-ss.tar.xz to download and build/install.

Build successful.

I'll test the results in the NEAR future and report my findings.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP and patience.

Best regards,

George...





On Friday, January 16, 2026 at 11:38:46 PM PST, Collin Funk 
<collin.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: 





Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:


> On 15/01/2026 17:17, George R Goffe via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> I'm attempting to build coreutils on a Fedora 44 system and have run
>> into some problems. Here is a file created from a build log. I have
>> the complete log available if needed. I tried the Fedora 44 gcc as
>> well as a locally built gcc from the gcc repo. Same problem exists.
>> Am I doing something wrong? Can you point me in the "right"
>> direction please?
>> Best regards,
>> George...
>> ./lib/stdlib.h:807:20: error: expected identifier or '(' before
>> '_Generic'
>> ./lib/wchar.h:841:23: error: expected identifier or '(' before '_Generic'
>
> So using GCC 16.
>
> I did see some posts to gnulib recently re GCC 16 and language levels,
> and also some recent gnulib tweaks re _Generic support,
> so CC'ing gnulib.
>
> Note coreutils 9.9 is using gnulib from Nov 2025.
> It would be good to test if this is already addressed
> with a gnulib (7606f1f2) from a couple of days ago using:
>
> wget https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a.tar.xz
> tar -xf coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a.tar.xz
> cd coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a
> ./configure --quiet && make -j $(nproc)


I could reproduce the errors in a Fedora Rawhide container and confirm
building from current master fixes it. So I will go ahead and close this
bug.

Thanks for reporting it anyways George.

Collin