Am Samstag, den 16.08.2008, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > I just talked with Marco on IRC. > > > > I have just used asprintf in one of my patches, but now I discovered: > > http://grub.enbug.org/BuildingOnNonGnu > > > > So I became a bit unsure now if it's okay to just use asprintf. > > IIRC, asprintf is widely available. At least it's present on *BSD.
Good. > > I doubt it would be good to use many `#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE' in the code. > > _GNU_SOURCE is used to tell Glibc to enable GNU extensions. When you want > to check from Glibc whether you're on Glibc, __GLIBC__ indicates that. > > But using autoconf checks is better anyway. configure.ac has already AC_GNU_SOURCE config.h.in says: /* Enable GNU extensions on systems that have them. */ For me it just seems that it's not a requirement so ./configure suceeds. Or am I wrong and I can just assume that asprintf is avaible? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
