new extern inline provokes -Wmissing-declarations warnings

[Jim Meyering]

With the latest from gnulib, I get things like this expanded from
timespec.h, and they trigger many -Wmissing-declarations warnings
in coreutils:

    #define _GL_TIMESPEC_INLINE _GL_INLINE
    # 57 "timespec.h"
    inline int
    timespec_cmp (struct timespec a, struct timespec b)
    {
      return (a.tv_sec < b.tv_sec ? -1
              : a.tv_sec > b.tv_sec ? 1
              : (int) (a.tv_nsec - b.tv_nsec));
    }

I have tentatively worked around it with the following,
but would be happy to avoid that commit altogether
if someone fixes the problem in gnulib "real soon":


>From 74f52eafbc39a6f9a5bcbd7266d60e3f1052d7e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 10:42:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] build: temporarily disable -Wmissing-declarations

* configure.ac: Disable -Wmissing-declarations to avoid warnings
from gnulib's newly extern-inline functions.
---
 configure.ac | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5651fd1..0245846 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ if test "$gl_gcc_warnings" = yes; then
   nw="$nw -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations" # a few src/*.c
   nw="$nw -Winline"                 # system.h's 
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+  # FIXME temporary 2012-aug work-around for gnulib's new extern inline policy
+  # With that, all of what used to be static-inline functions may now be
+  # "extern inline", in which case they trigger the missing-decl warning.
+  nw="$nw -Wmissing-declarations"
+
   # Using -Wstrict-overflow is a pain, but the alternative is worse.
   # For an example, see the code that provoked this report:
   # http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33498
--
1.7.12.rc1.10.g97c7934