Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2011-08/msg00013.html>: > With native cc and c89, compilation of patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 on SGI IRIX > fails like this: > > CC verror.o > cc-1129 c89: ERROR File = verror.h, Line = 35 > A left brace ("{") is expected at this point. > > __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 0))); > ^
This was a bug in gnulib that was introduced on 2011-02-13 and fixed on 2011-03-20. The tarball of patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 was unlucky enough to pick up one of the buggy versions. Bruno -- In memoriam Alexander Bessmertny <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bessmertny>
