On Friday 20 August 2004 03:52, Tom Lane wrote: > Stefanos Harhalakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems that the problem is in src/template/linux: > > > > $ cat src/template/linux=20 > > # Force _GNU_SOURCE on; plperl is broken with Perl 5.8.0 otherwise > > CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" > > > > which is beeing sourced by configure.in. Changing this to > > CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" > > solves the problem. > > Hmm, good point (and I see template/hpux is committing the same sin). > > For CFLAGS, configure.in takes pains to not let the template file > override a user-supplied setting. Should we do the same for CPPFLAGS, > or just apply the quick-and-dirty patch suggested by Stefanos to these > two templates?
I believe that if someone shall have to set CPPFLAGS="-I..." for openssl then he should not have to guess that CPPFLAGS should also contain -D_GNU_SOURCE, unless it is stated in the documentation or as a warning when running the configure script. <<V13>>
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