Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > On 15/01/2026 17:17, George R Goffe via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: >> Howdy, >> I'm attempting to build coreutils on a Fedora 44 system and have run >> into some problems. Here is a file created from a build log. I have >> the complete log available if needed. I tried the Fedora 44 gcc as >> well as a locally built gcc from the gcc repo. Same problem exists. >> Am I doing something wrong? Can you point me in the "right" >> direction please? >> Best regards, >> George... >> ./lib/stdlib.h:807:20: error: expected identifier or '(' before >> '_Generic' >> ./lib/wchar.h:841:23: error: expected identifier or '(' before '_Generic' > > So using GCC 16. > > I did see some posts to gnulib recently re GCC 16 and language levels, > and also some recent gnulib tweaks re _Generic support, > so CC'ing gnulib. > > Note coreutils 9.9 is using gnulib from Nov 2025. > It would be good to test if this is already addressed > with a gnulib (7606f1f2) from a couple of days ago using: > > wget https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a.tar.xz > tar -xf coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a.tar.xz > cd coreutils-9.9.192-6b32a > ./configure --quiet && make -j $(nproc)
Interesting, I assume that one would be able to reproduce it in a Fedora Rawhide container. I'll try to remember to do that for releases. Collin
