Subject: bug#8977: Parse error: Compile coreutils 8.9 with gcc 2.95.3

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:47:32 -0600

On 07/01/2011 02:43 AM, Wolfgang Steinwender wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> compiling coreutils 8.9 with gcc 2.95.3:

Thanks for the report.  However, this is not a bug in coreutils, since
we explicitly document in the "Pre-C99 build failure" section in README
the minimum compiler that we are willing to support.

> {
>   if (heap->count == 0)
>     return NULL;
> 
>   void *top = heap->array[1];

The declaration-after-statement construct is required by C99 (now more
than 10 years old), and supported as an extension by a number of C89
compilers.  Your problem is that gcc 2.95.3 is SOOOO old that it does
not understand this extension.

-- 
Eric Blake   [email-masked]    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org