Re: [BUG] daemon.c blows up on OSX

Randal L. Schwartz
2006-12-20T23:17:13Z

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

Linus> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 /* AIX 5.3L needs this */
Linus> #define _GNU_SOURCE
Linus> #define _BSD_SOURCE

Well, _GNU_SOURCE and _BSD_SOURCE only get defined, and only by some
oddballs that aren't relevant here.

Linus> sequence actually _disables_ those things.

Linus> Some googling finds a python source diff:

Linus> # On Mac OS X 10.4, defining _POSIX_C_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE
Linus> # disables platform specific features beyond repair.
Linus> - Darwin/8.*)
Linus> + Darwin/8.*|Darwin/7.*)
Linus> define_xopen_source=no
Linus> ;;

Linus> (and Ruby shows up as well in the google)

Linus> Can you try to grovel around in the OS X headers, and see what the magic
Linus> is to enable all the compatibility crud on OS X?

But yes, _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED definitely does some damage to
curses.h. However, I don't see how that's relevant to strings.h
or the others I need. There's no "config" for "compatibility".
Welcome to Linux vs Unix. :)

What I do know is (a) it worked before the header changes and (b)
the patch I just gave you works. If the patch doesn't break others,
can we just leave it in?

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