+/* On some systems other than glibc, <sys/stat.h> is a prerequisite of
+ <fcntl.h>. On glibc systems, we would like to avoid namespace pollution.
+ But on glibc systems, <fcntl.h> includes <sys/stat.h> inside an
+ extern "C" { ... } block, which leads to errors in C++ mode with the
+ overridden <sys/stat.h> from gnulib. These errors are known to be gone
+ with g++ version >= 4.3. */
+#if !(defined __GLIBC__ || defined __UCLIBC__) || (defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE && !(__GNUC__ > 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)))