From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:50:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6
Message-ID: <20090528195057.GA14360@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <kZP6fFCtTQSG03irLxGArpacn-5pYEauMj-b0VWwhzPWMGiC_XnsYw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:40:14PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> It's not the compiler that prevents compilation.  It's the header files.
> 
> You mentioned that on Solaris 8 there was only a single declaration for
> iconv.  There was not a macro check for _XPG6.  I suspect that Solaris 8
> does not support XPG6, so your compilation is just falling back to XPG4.

OK, that makes sense.

> The same thing happens on Solaris 7.  On Solaris 10, if the macros are
> set such that _XPG6 becomes set, then compilation will fail if the
> compiler is not a c99 one.

Right. What I was trying to say is "gcc 3.1.1 is probably c99 enough,
and I am using it already". That is, if you were asking how painful it
would be to require a c99 compiler for Solaris git, I am saying I don't
personally care.

But I don't know what is "normal".

-Peff