Trying to build newlib native on SUSE 10.1

[Robert Mykland]

Eventually we will build newlib on our cross compiler, but for starters 
I just wanted to build newlib native on my SUSE 10.1 machine.  The 
configures work fine -- at least they run with no errors reported.  
Building from the top level, I ran into the problem that I don't have 
makeinfo installed on my machine.  Can I skip this part of the build?  I 
also tried building just the libc directory from a separate directory 
like the FAQ says, but it gives me the following error:

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DPACKAGE=\"newlib\" 
-DVERSION=\"1.14.0\"  -I. 
-I/home/mykland/work/newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/argz  -O2 -Wall 
-D_I386MACH_ALLOW_HW_INTERRUPTS -DHAVE_FCNTL -fPIC 
-D_I386MACH_NEED_SOTYPE_FUNCTION -DMISSING_SYSCALL_NAMES 
-fno-builtin      -g -O2 -c 
/home/mykland/work/newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/argz/argz_add.c
gcc -DPACKAGE=\"newlib\" -DVERSION=\"1.14.0\" -I. 
-I/home/mykland/work/newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/argz -O2 -Wall 
-D_I386MACH_ALLOW_HW_INTERRUPTS -DHAVE_FCNTL -fPIC 
-D_I386MACH_NEED_SOTYPE_FUNCTION -DMISSING_SYSCALL_NAMES -fno-builtin -g 
-O2 -c /home/mykland/work/newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/argz/argz_add.c  
-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/argz_add.o
/home/mykland/work/newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/argz/argz_add.c:13: error: 
expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '_DEFUN'
make[1]: *** [argz_add.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mykland/work/libc/argz'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I get this error whether I'm trying to build in place or build in a 
separate directory as the FAQ suggests.  SUSE 10.1 is using gcc version 
4.1.0.

Cheers,

-- Robert.