--- coreutils-8.22/gnulib-tests/test-xvasprintf.c.str_fmt~	2014-02-14 13:20:01.439634735 -0500
+++ coreutils-8.22/gnulib-tests/test-xvasprintf.c	2014-02-14 13:20:50.029745175 -0500
@@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ test_xasprintf (void)
     /* Silence gcc warning about zero-length format string,
        and about "format not a string literal and no format"
        (whatever that means) .  */
-    const char *empty = "";
-    result = xasprintf (empty, empty);
+    result = xasprintf ("", "");
     ASSERT (result != NULL);
     ASSERT (strcmp (result, "") == 0);
     free (result);