On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:10:14PM +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
>
> Hi,
>
> The fix for this bug in 2.6.4-4 isn't good enough to fix the build of
> charybdis. charybdis uses some extra types (like u_int) which are not
> defined by glibc if strict POSIX compliance is enabled (which is what
> _POSIX_C_SOURCE does).
>
> I think defining _DEFAULT_SOURCE should fix this. In glibc, defining
> _DEFAULT_SOURCE will also enable POSIX 2008 functions (but will not
> disable anything) so you may be able to drop the other defines. However,
> this is not a general upstreamable solution because this macro is not
> available in other C libraries (or is called something else).
flex should just nuke the bogus backported change and go back to what
has always been working.
As I already wrote in the upstream bug, I do not think that flex should
mess with feature test macros in the files it generates.
It worked without messing with feature test macros for > 20 years,
and it is documented.
> Thanks,
> James
cu
Adrian
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