[Gcl-devel] Re: Patch: adapt to newer autoconf versions

[Aleksej Saushev]

"Gabriel Dos Reis" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Jerry James <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> So, in fact, we want to check for C99 features, not GNU sources; right?
>>>
>>> -- Gaby
>>
>> RIght.  On glibc-based systems, defining _GNU_SOURCE causes
>> _ISOC99_SOURCE to also be defined (see /usr/include/features.h), as
>> well as _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE, and several others.  In short,
>> defining _GNU_SOURCE says to activate all features.
>
> Yes, I understand that.  I guess, my point is that GCL runs also
> on non GNU systems (e.g. *BSD, MAC, MinGW, etc)

No, it doesn't. GCL doesn't run on BSD systems, except FreeBSD when
heavily patched to do so. GCL is unportable.


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