OS X Build problems

I'm surprised not to find other people with the same problem, looking @ 
Google & other obvious places doesn't help.  I grabbed 1.95.6 and did a 
configure and "make" blew up messily and quickly with tons of syntax errors

/bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2 -Wall 
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions   -I./lib -I. -o 
lib/xmlparse.lo -c lib/xmlparse.c
lib/xmltok.h:143: syntax error, found `*'
lib/xmltok.h:143: illegal member declaration, missing name, found `)'
lib/xmltok.h:144: syntax error, found `*'
lib/xmltok.h:144: illegal member declaration...

etc.

I've seen reports of OS X problems but they seem to be with static 
linking & so on... do I need to work through this one or is it a known 
issue & I just missed it when I went looking?
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Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)