On Solaris 11.4, the compilation fails: gcc -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../gnulib/lib -I../.. -I/export/home/bruno/prefix64/include -Wall -D_REENTRANT -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-conversion -Wno-float-equal -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-undef -Wno-unused-function -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-float-conversion -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-pedantic -Wno-sign-conversion -Wno-type-limits -Wno-unsuffixed-float-constants -g -O2 -MT libgnu_a-malloca.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgnu_a-malloca.Tpo -c -o libgnu_a-malloca.o `test -f 'malloca.c' || echo '../../../gnulib/lib/'`malloca.c ../../../gnulib/lib/malloca.c:42:56: error: macro "static_assert" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given static_assert (2 * sa_alignment_max - 1 <= (small_t) -1); ^ ../../../gnulib/lib/malloca.c:42:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class static_assert (2 * sa_alignment_max - 1 <= (small_t) -1); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../../gnulib/lib/malloca.c:42:1: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘static_assert’ [-Wimplicit-int] gmake[4]: *** [Makefile:2521: libgnu_a-malloca.o] Error 1
This is the same problem as found in a GNU sed pretest [1]. It needs to be fixed in Gnulib. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2022-10/msg00004.html