Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 11:08:35 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199809091508.LAA28770@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.A32.3.91.980909172215.42792A-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv>
	(message from Andris Pavenis on Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:55:19 +0200 (WET))
Subject: Re: Updated diffs for compiling DJLSR-980907 with EGCS-1.1
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>    - native libc.a include files (libc-5.4.46) defines POSIX_SOURCE
>      that effectively eliminates contents of coff.h from djcrx202.zip;

This is a bug in Linux.  The system headers must never define
POSIX_SOURCE themselves; POSIX does not allow it.  POSIX_SOURCE is a
request *by the application* for a POSIX-compliant environment.