Re: _GNU_SOURCE

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Do we want to try this approach that the DBD:pg guys are using?
> >
> >     http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/dbdpg-general/2003-September/000452.html
> >
> > It involves "$Config{q{ccflags}};".  I think they can use it because
> > they are using Makefile.PL, while our plperl is not, so maybe we can't
> > use it.
> 
> There is a reason we don't use MakeMaker anymore, and it is exactly to
> avoid using the Perl-provided ccflags.

OK, next question is whether we should use _GNU_SOURCE only for plperl
compile, rather than everything.  _GNU_SOURCE seems to do lots of stuff
that I am uncertain about.

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