recipe for target 'html2texi.o' failed

[bvraghav]

$ ./configure
$ automake --add-missing
$ make check

gives the following error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -Wall -MT html2texi.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/html2texi.Tpo -c -o html2texi.o html2texi.c
lex.yy.c:678:7: error: conflicting types for ‘strndup’
In file included from html2texi.l:6:0:
/usr/include/string.h:179:14: note: previous declaration of ‘strndup’ was here
extern char *strndup (const char *__string, size_t __n)
...
Makefile:485: recipe for target 'html2texi.o' failed make: *** [html2texi.o] Error 1