Re: _GNU_SOURCE

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai" <asmodai(at)wxs(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: _GNU_SOURCE
Date: 2003-10-09 13:41:00
Message-ID: 200310091341.h99Df0U22497@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Do we want to try this approach that the DBD:pg guys are using?
> >
> > http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/dbdpg-general/2003-September/000452.html
> >
> > It involves "$Config{q{ccflags}};". I think they can use it because
> > they are using Makefile.PL, while our plperl is not, so maybe we can't
> > use it.
>
> There is a reason we don't use MakeMaker anymore, and it is exactly to
> avoid using the Perl-provided ccflags.

OK, next question is whether we should use _GNU_SOURCE only for plperl
compile, rather than everything. _GNU_SOURCE seems to do lots of stuff
that I am uncertain about.

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