glibc-2.28 did hide loff_t indef system-specific macros: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=663e7d784977f6b15c0cab73f754f9f39c9c0c2c This caused build failure: ../include/reiserfs_lib.h:300:55: error: unknown type name 'loff_t'; did you mean 'off_t'? Re-enable extensions to pull loff_t back. https://bugs.gentoo.org/663930 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -23,2 +23,4 @@ AC_PROG_MAKE_SET AC_PROG_LIBTOOL +dnl pull in loff_t from glibc +AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS