bug#7191: Gnulib failing to compile on Ubuntu 10.10

[Jim Meyering]

William Plusnick wrote:

> The latest version of Ubuntu 10.10 is not building the Coreutils. It appears
> to fail due getopt. I ran:
> $ git pull
> $ make clean
> $ ./bootstrap
> $ ./configure
> $ make
>
> and get this error:
>   CC     xstrtoimax.o
> In file included from xstrtol.h:22,
>                  from xstrtol.c:31,
>                  from xstrtoimax.c:6:
> ./getopt.h:196: error: redefinition of 'struct option'
> ./getopt.h:242: error: conflicting types for 'getopt_long'
> /usr/include/getopt.h:175: note: previous declaration of 'getopt_long' was
> here
> ./getopt.h:246: error: conflicting types for 'getopt_long_only'
> /usr/include/getopt.h:179: note: previous declaration of 'getopt_long_only'
> was here
> make[4]: *** [xstrtoimax.o] Error 1
>
> I can try to solve it, but I'm a pretty bad programmer (maybe someday that
> will change), so most likely someone else will solve it before I do.

Thanks for the report.
Did you try with the latest snapshot?

    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
    http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz

If that fails, too, please let us know ASAP,
since I'm making the next release any day now.