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From: Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [mdadm PATCH] Move symbol definitions from source files to
 Makefile.
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:05:58 +0100
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On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 09:45 +0000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:47:45 +0100
> Artur Wojcik <artur.wojcik@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch will move _GNU_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 from
> > various source files to Makefile.
> 
> Why?
> 

The reason is to clean up the code. The new files will appear soon and I
want this two definitions to be set globally instead of per source file.

There's the plan to use GNU autotools to simply the build process, too.

Thanks,
Artur