Re: _GNU_SOURCE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai" <asmodai(at)wxs(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: _GNU_SOURCE
Date: 2003-10-14 01:01:54
Message-ID: 4309.1066093314@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We've been using it for awhile, and it's not broken anything. Why are
>> you so eager to make build changes with potentially wide ramifications
>> so late in the beta cycle?

> I don't know what the ramifications of _GNU_SOURCE are, but we have run
> longer without it than with it. Seems safest to have it only where we
> need it, in plperl.

No can do --- _GNU_SOURCE affects the results of configure. We either
use it or we don't, we don't get to be selective about it.

regards, tom lane

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