On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:54:24AM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > However this special define does impose extra effort to port code to > specifically to NetBSD, as now strtonum() is more or less "universally" > available by default. (I've since seen that it is available by default > in Solaris (illumos, OmniOS), and of course it's also been in the linux > "BSD" library, with default visibility, for a very long time now.) > > In any case it seems mostly like politics and bad grudges to require a > unique special define to expose these functions to code that end users > are just trying to build. >
To be honest it's a long term policy on NetBSD to avoid namespace pollution, we don't expose our own functions to POSIX applications either. libbsd is a random third-party project and not part of any libc. > I'm going to get laughed at trying to suggest fixes to projects which > effectively say they have to define "_OPENBSD_SOURCE" just to compile > stuff on NetBSD when it already works on all the other BSDs! > > #if defined(__NetBSD__) && !defined(_OPENBSD_SOURCE) > # define _OPENBSD_SOURCE 1 > #endif This can (and should) be done via the build system or environment instead. export CFLAGS="-D_OPENBSD_SOURCE", etc.
