[Slightly OT] Help building an srpm

Hi folks. Sorry for being slightly off-topic, since I'm asking about a 
non-atrpms srpm, but you guys know lots about building stuff, especially 
more recent stuff on older distros so please excuse me :-)

I'm trying to build fuse-ext2 
http://dwrobel.fedorapeople.org/projects/rpmbuild/SRPMS/fuse-ext2-0.0.7-4.fc13.src.rpm 
on EL5 (CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-243 x86_64) and it bails out as follows:

+ autoreconf -si
configure.ac:83: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T
       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
       See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.22723 (%build)

I get the same building straight from the source.

A little Googling suggests I need autoconf 2.60 or later and all I have 
is 2.59. Anyone got a RPM (x86_64) I can safely use? Will I have to 
update other build tools as well? Building the building tools is too 
much for me :-)

I tried also going to the older ext2fuse project, even though I don't 
like its scary warnings about it toasting hard drives, but its build 
bails out with something similar but different:

imager.c:41: error: conflicting types for ‘ssize_t’
/usr/include/unistd.h:191: error: previous declaration of ‘ssize_t’ was here

If you want to know why I want fuse-ext2 - I need to mount an ext2 
filesystem which has 16K blocks (because it was created on a ReadyNAS 
which has a Sparc CPU with 16K pages), while my kernel's ext2 filesystem 
apparently only supports blocks up to 4K. I haven't got the drive yet 
but it's in the post and I'd like to be ready :-)

Thanks in advance,

John.


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