Re: [bug-patch] patch-2.6.1.136-31a7 compilation failures on SGI IRIX

[Bruno Haible]

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
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