Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR3106
2 Backported from gcc-3.0.x
5 .../binutils-2.11.2/libiberty/strerror.c:468: error: conflicting types for `sys_nerr'
6 /usr/include/stdio.h:258: error: previous declaration of `sys_nerr'
7 make[1]: *** [strerror.o] Error 1
8 make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
11 --- gcc-2.95.3/libiberty/strerror.c.old 2004-03-24 16:23:19.000000000 -0800
12 +++ gcc-2.95.3/libiberty/strerror.c 2004-03-24 16:23:48.000000000 -0800
14 incompatible with our later declaration, perhaps by using const
15 attributes. So we hide the declaration in errno.h (if any) using a
17 +#define sys_nerr sys_nerr__
18 #define sys_errlist sys_errlist__
24 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST