GNU cpio compile problem

[Daniel Savard]

Hi,

I am trying to make the GNU cpio utility (version 2.4.2) using the gcc 3.0.2
compiler. The make failed on the userspec.c file compilation. I then tried to
compile with gcc 2.95.3 with the following result:

-----  BEGIN ---------------------
gcc -c  -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
-DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_UTIME_H=1 
-DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_LCHOWN=1 -DHAVE_VPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 
-DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1  -I. -g -O userspec.c
userspec.c:85: macro `strdup' used without args
make: *** [userspec.o] Error 1
----- END -----------------------

gcc 3.0.2 is giving the following error message:

----- BEGIN --------------------------
gcc -c  -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_SYS_MTIO_H=1 -DHAVE_NETDB_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
-DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_UTIME_H=1 
-DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_LCHOWN=1 -DHAVE_VPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 
-DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1  -I. -g -O userspec.c
userspec.c:85: parse error before "__extension__"
userspec.c:85: `__len' undeclared here (not in a function)
userspec.c:85: initializer element is not constant
userspec.c:85: parse error before "if"
userspec.c:85: conflicting types for `__retval'
userspec.c:85: previous declaration of `__retval'
userspec.c:85: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
userspec.c:85: parse error before '}' token
make: *** [userspec.o] Error 1
----- END --------------------------------

I searched for a patch, but I didn't find any. Can you help with this?

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