alloc.c:66: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...'

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:

>  newbie alert here.  i'm trying to run one of the simple examples for
> systemtap and i'm getting precisely the error described here:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2006-q4/msg00428.html
> [...]

Yeah, this is a known bug, corrected in ... wait for it ... CVS.
We're planning to package fedora updates only a couple of weeks from
now.

> my current (unadulterated) system configuration is: [...]

If you're up for a little bit of adultery (and, running a fresh git
kernel, surely you are!), try building systemtap out of CVS.

- FChE