Re: texinfo 4.0c doesn't build with GCC 3.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:38:44 -0300
> 
> gcc -DINFODIR=\"/usr/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\"
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.-I/usr/local/src/alpha-beta/GNU/texinfo-4.0c/lib -I../intl
> -I.. -I/usr/local/src/alpha-beta/GNU/texinfo-4.0c/info    -O2 -c 
> /usr/local/src/alpha-beta/GNU/texinfo-4.0c/info/info.c
> /usr/local/src/alpha-beta/GNU/texinfo-4.0c/info/info.c:567:1: directives may 
> not be used inside a macro argument
> /usr/local/src/alpha-beta/GNU/texinfo-4.0c/info/info.c:567:1: unterminated 
> argument list invoking macro "printf"

Blame those library maintainers who made `printf' a macro, in
conjunction with the new preprocessor that doesn't support directives
inside a macro.

As a simple work-around, you could try putting `printf' in
parentheses, like this:

    (printf) (whatever arguments printf is called);