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In article <3898bu$l63@mcrware.microware.com> johnl@microware.com (John Lengeling) writes:

   I need some help compiling glibc-1.08.1 under SunOS 4.1.2 using gcc
   2.6.0.  I get an error compileing version.c:

   [bear]/home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1/sun4% make
   make  -C .. objdir=`pwd` all
   make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1'
   gcc version.c -c -Wall -Wno-parentheses -Wwrite-strings -g -I.  -I/home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1/sun4 -Isysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sunos4 -Isysdeps/unix/mman -Isysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sparc -Isysdeps/unix/bsd/sun -Isysdeps/unix/bsd -Isysdeps/unix/common -Isysdeps/unix/inet -Isysdeps/unix/sparc -Isysdeps/unix -Isysdeps/posix -Isysdeps/sparc -Isysdeps/ieee754 -Isysdeps/generic -Isysdeps/stub -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_PSIGNAL=1  -D_LIBC -o /home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1/sun4/version.o
   In file included from ./stdio.h:1,
		    from version.c:20:
   ./stdio/stdio.h:167: parse error before `__attribute__'
   make[1]: *** [/home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1/sun4/version.o] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bear/johnl/glibc-1.08.1'
   make: *** [all] Error 2

The problem is that gcc's syntax for specifying `const' and `volatile'
attributes for function has changed.

Before version 2.6.0 (I think!), it used the keywords `const' and
`volatile' BEFORE the function name.

Now it wants `__attribute__ ((const))' and `__attribute__
((noreturn))' (or something like that) AFTER the function name.

Thus the header files that #define _CONST and _NORETURN are wrong for
gcc >2.6.0.

I fixed the problem by going through the affected files and changing
these symbols' positions by hand.  (Someone clever could probably
write a script.)

If you're not worried about optimisation, you might fix it
quickly'n'dirtily by finding the #definitions of _CONST and _NORETURN
and following them by
#define _CONST
and
#define _NORETURN
respectively, assuming that spaces before a function name have the
same effect as spaces after it, i.e. none.

	Neil.