Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:20:21 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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Subject: Re: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?
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Christopher Faylor, le Thu 12 Jan 2006 13:13:39 -0500, a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >But a portable program should _not_ assume that #defining _GNU_SOURCE
> >implies that _POSIX_SOURCE. If a program not only needs posix stuff but
> >also some GNU extras, it should #define _GNU_SOURCE _and_ _POSIX_SOURCE
> >itself.
> 
> I don't care about portable programs.

Then don't ask for your programs to get compiled under other systems
than GNU. Defining _GNU_SOURCE without defining _POSIX_SOURCE just means
you only target GNU systems. Cygwin is not a GNU system.

> I'm interested in hearing if this will fix problems with programs
> which build without problem on linux.

Maybe, but it's a really _wrong_ approach which cannot but just degrade
cygwin's POSIX compliancy.

Regards,
Samuel

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