RE: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] Interix _ALL_SOURCE

[Markus Duft]

>
> While compiling Mutt on Interix, I was confronted with flock +
> constants
> not being defined.  Further inspection of the header file (manpage said
> it should exist in fcntl.h) revealed the need for _ALL_SOURCE.  Many
> ebuilds just include flag-o-matic to do append-flags -D_ALL_SOURCE on
> Interix.  Not being very amused by the beauty of that solution, and
> looking at the insanity of the Interix headers, what's against just
> adding -D_ALL_SOURCE in the Interix' profile.bashrc file (with
> encompassing logic not to add it multiple times)?  Wouldn't that be
> much
> saner (and cleaner in the ebuilds)?  Are there packages known to break
> when _ALL_SOURCE is defined?

I guess there where packages refusing to build with _ALL_SOURCE, but I can't think of a single one. After all it shouldn't be too much work to get those to build with _ALL_SOURCE then I think.

So from my POV, enabling should be ok. BUT: that would mean that packages will possibly change behavior, which means that eventually nothing has to stay compatible to the current builds. This is not a blocker I think, but we have to remember that it would be better to re-bootstrap most of the things, after this change, to keep everything consistent.

Cheers, Markus

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