Re: pgsql 8.0.0b1 - openssl detection

On Friday 20 August 2004 03:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefanos Harhalakis <v13(at)it(dot)teithe(dot)gr> writes:
> > It seems that the problem is in src/template/linux:
> >
> > $ cat src/template/linux=20
> > # Force _GNU_SOURCE on; plperl is broken with Perl 5.8.0 otherwise
> > CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE"
> >
> > which is beeing sourced by configure.in. Changing this to
> > CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE"
> > solves the problem.
>
> Hmm, good point (and I see template/hpux is committing the same sin).
>
> For CFLAGS, configure.in takes pains to not let the template file
> override a user-supplied setting. Should we do the same for CPPFLAGS,
> or just apply the quick-and-dirty patch suggested by Stefanos to these
> two templates?

I believe that if someone shall have to set CPPFLAGS="-I..." for openssl then
he should not have to guess that CPPFLAGS should also contain -D_GNU_SOURCE,
unless it is stated in the documentation or as a warning when running the
configure script.

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