From 55955aa970faeaafdcbadc2884a7b66bec764ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:25:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] MFS: make this file compilable with gcc 2.9x as well.

---
 contrib/tar/lib/error.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/tar/lib/error.c b/contrib/tar/lib/error.c
index e91e68a70378..f0e60308e48b 100644
--- a/contrib/tar/lib/error.c
+++ b/contrib/tar/lib/error.c
@@ -190,10 +190,11 @@ error_tail (int status, int errnum, const char *message, va_list args)
     {
 # if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || _LIBC
       char errbuf[1024];
+      char *s;
       /* Don't use __strerror_r's return value because on some systems
 	 (at least DEC UNIX 4.0[A-D]) strerror_r returns `int'.  */
       (void)__strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf);
-      char *s = errbuf;
+      s = errbuf;
 #  if _LIBC && USE_IN_LIBIO
       if (_IO_fwide (stderr, 0) > 0)
 	__fwprintf (stderr, L": %s", s);