[Weechat-support] build failure on older Linux version

[Lonni J Friedman]

Greetings,
I'm trying to build weechat-0.3.8 on an old Linux system with
gcc-2.96, and 'make' is failing:
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Making all in core
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/n/netllama/foo/weechat-0.3.8/src/core'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"       -Wall -W
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration -pipe -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DHAVE_ZLIB
-DWEECHAT_VERSION=\"0.3.8\" -DWEECHAT_LICENSE=\"GPL3\" -MT wee-log.o
-MD -MP -MF .deps/wee-log.Tpo -c -o wee-log.o wee-log.c
wee-log.c: In function `log_printf':
wee-log.c:136: parse error before `argptr'
wee-log.c:136: `vaa_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
wee-log.c:136: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
wee-log.c:136: for each function it appears in.)
wee-log.c:136: `vbuffer' undeclared (first use in this function)
wee-log.c:136: `argptr' undeclared (first use in this function)
wee-log.c:136: `vaa_num' undeclared (first use in this function)
wee-log.c:136: `vaa_buffer2' undeclared (first use in this function)
wee-log.c:129: warning: `ptr_buffer' might be used uninitialized in
this function
make[3]: *** [wee-log.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/n/netllama/foo/weechat-0.3.8/src/core'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/n/netllama/foo/weechat-0.3.8/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/n/netllama/foo/weechat-0.3.8'
make: *** [all] Error 2
#########

This isn't my system, so I can't upgrade anything easily.  Is there a
way to get this to build?

thanks!

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