Re: _GNU_SOURCE

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> We've been using it for awhile, and it's not broken anything.  Why are
> you so eager to make build changes with potentially wide ramifications
> so late in the beta cycle?  I didn't agree with your changes to CFLAGS

I don't know what the ramifications of _GNU_SOURCE are, but we have run
longer without it than with it.  Seems safest to have it only where we
need it, in plperl.

> yesterday, either.  The risk of breaking things on some platform greatly
> outweighs the potential benefits at this stage.

Well, the compile flags were broken by almost any measure.  I don't
want to ship without optimization for 7.4 for all those platforms.

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