ECPG interface: 7.4beta3 compile failure; CVS tip compile failure

System: i386 (Athlon) - Debian GNU/Linux unstable

PostgreSQL 7.4beta3 fails to compile:

i386-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -pipe -fPIC -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I../../../../src/include/utils -I../../../../src/include -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -I/usr/lib/R/include -g -c -o timestamp.o timestamp.c
timestamp.c: In function `tm2timestamp':
timestamp.c:71: error: syntax error before numeric constant
timestamp.c:73: error: syntax error before "long"
timestamp.c:76: error: syntax error before '>=' token
timestamp.c:76: error: syntax error before '<' token
make[5]: *** [timestamp.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/mypackages/postgresql/postgresql-7.3.99.7.4beta3/build-tree/postgresql-7.4beta3/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib'

This error is fixed in CVS tip by Tom Lane's patch of 2 days ago.
However CVS tip still fails to compile:

make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/olly/pgsql.cvs/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib'
i386-linux-gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -D_GNU_SOURCE -fpic -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I../../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../../src/include/utils -I../../../../src/include -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -I/usr/lib/R/include -c -o informix.o informix.c
informix.c:138: error: syntax error before "__extension__"
informix.c:138: error: syntax error before "len"
informix.c:138: error: syntax error before "if"
...etc....

Line 138 begins the definition of strndup(). However, strndup() is also
declared in string.h, which is included by this file. If I rename this
function to estrndup() (and also where it is called, further down) the
compilation succeeds.

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