merge from trunk

this merges frmo trunk and fixes various build issues.
this needed a few ugly tweaks.
this hangs in "make check" now

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ignore-value.h b/lib/ignore-value.h
index 63ecde85136..ebd6bf42f56 100644
--- a/lib/ignore-value.h
+++ b/lib/ignore-value.h
@@ -33,15 +33,16 @@
    declared with attribute warn_unused_result".  */
 
 #ifndef _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
-# define _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
+#define _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
 
 /* The __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) feature
    is available in gcc versions 3.4 and newer,
    while the typeof feature has been available since 2.7 at least.  */
-# if __GNUC__ < 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4)
-#  define ignore_value(x) ((void) (x))
-# else
-#  define ignore_value(x) (({ __typeof__ (x) __x = (x); (void) __x; }))
-# endif
+#if 3 < __GNUC__ + (4 <= __GNUC_MINOR__)
+# define ignore_value(x) \
+    (__extension__ ({ __typeof__ (x) __x = (x); (void) __x; }))
+#else
+# define ignore_value(x) ((void) (x))
+#endif
 
 #endif