http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50342
--- Comment #8 from simon at pushface dot org 2011-09-09 19:50:05 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > Try CC="gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0" $srcdir/configure Works. Works better if you say $srcdir/configure CC="gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0" (then you don't need to say 'CC="gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0" make'). > > On the other hand, we could reconsider -fkeep-inline-functions in the > > configure > > scripts? The problem arises because the unsupported inlined builtin call is > > (effectively) in <string.h>, so we don't need to actually call it. > > On Darwin, possibly, but otherwise I don't see any good reason to do that. I suppose it might happen if say Red Hat decided to add builtins to their system compiler/includes. But I agree, fairly unlikely. Also, I see you went through a lot of pain in PR bootstrap/18058 putting -fkeep-inline-functions into configure!