Inability to build the termcap library

[Iyer Viswanathan]

Hi,
     While building the termcap-1.3 downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/termcap/ I get the following error.
     Though the configure runs smoothly, following error is observed after make :

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     gcc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/etc/termcap\" -I. -I. -g termcap.c
     gcc -c  -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1  -DTERMCAP_FILE=\"/etc/termcap\" -I. -I. -g tparam.c
     In file included from tparam.c:29:
     /usr/include/string.h:242: parse error before `('
     /usr/include/string.h:242: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `memcpy'
     /usr/include/string.h:242: parse error before `__const'
     make: *** [tparam.o] Error 1

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     Kindly  help.

Regards,
Vishy