On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Andrew Morgan wrote: > 1. file a bug report for each logical change request - include a patch > with that bug report. And another... Please could things like "-D_POSIX_SOURCE" be relegated to only those particular systems which need it. They can be counter-productive to portability. So here it is: ====================== snip ======================= *** configure.in- Tue Dec 12 18:04:40 2000 --- configure.in Wed Dec 13 09:23:32 2000 *************** *** 230,236 **** if test "$GCC" = yes; then ### ### Non-Linux needs attention on per-OS basis ! OS_CFLAGS="-ansi -D_POSIX_SOURCE -pedantic" WARNINGS="$GCC_WARNINGS" PIC="-fPIC" #can/should we use LD=gcc ??? --- 230,236 ---- if test "$GCC" = yes; then ### ### Non-Linux needs attention on per-OS basis ! OS_CFLAGS="-ansi -pedantic" WARNINGS="$GCC_WARNINGS" PIC="-fPIC" #can/should we use LD=gcc ??? ====================== snip ======================= It should be selectively included only when explicitly needed by the particular quirks of a particular OS. (That is left as an exercise to a user of such an OS with such quirks!) -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :
