Re: Building: alloc.c:766:1: error: negative width in bit-field `_gl_verify_error_if_negative'

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/12/2012 03:02 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> alloc.c:766:1: error: negative width in bit-field 
> `_gl_verify_error_if_negative'

I am not seeing this problem (trunk bzr 107261)
on Fedora 15 x86-64 with GCC 4.6.2.

That diagnostic is because the following static assertion
is failing:

  verify (INT_MAX <= PTRDIFF_MAX);

which suggests that your compilation environment is misconfigured
somehow -- I don't know of any platforms where INT_MAX
is greater than PTRDIFF_MAX.

I suggest running 'make distclean; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make',
or if that fails a fresh checkout.