Re: make: syntax error before "G_GNUC_SENTINEL"

[Jan D.]

> I just did cvs up and ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk without a
> problem, but make (without and with bootstrap) bailed out with the
> following errors.  I used the same gcc (3.3.5), gtk2 (2.6.4) and make
> (3.80) (all from SUSE 9.3) as I did with my previous successful build
> (the one with which I'm posting this) and didn't get these errors then
> or ever before.  Can anyone help?
>
> In file included from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk- 
> pixbuf.h:33,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkcursor.h:5,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:31,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:31,
>                  from xterm.h:46,
>                  from dispnew.c:56:
> /opt/gnome/include/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-core.h:163: error:  
> syntax error before "G_GNUC_SENTINEL"

All errors relating to G_GNUC_SENTINEL are at locations where there  
is a ... in a function prototype.  No file in Emacs or Gtk defines  
G_GNUC_SENTINEL.  I suspect this is a Suse problem.  If you look at  
the files at the error location and there is a G_GNUC_SENTINEL there  
instead of ..., then Suse has modified the include files and  
G_GNUC_SENTINEL is defined elsewhere.

Did you update your Suse system between Emacs compiles?  Try looking  
for G_GNUC_SENTINEL in the include files at /usr/include, /usr/local/ 
include, /usr/X11R6/include and possibly /usr/lib/gcc-lib.  In the  
future, do not remove the compile command when sending bug reports  
with compiler errors (i.e. the actual gcc command that preceeds these  
errors).

    Jan D.