Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]> writes:

> On Monday 23 July 2012, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>> It is not clear why -lc needed to be passed. It seems to have come
>> with commit 4d1789f40ed1cc6e34e55b9edc119ee6389e1368, but things seem
>> to work just fine without that on FreeBSD.
>>
>> Also remove the _GNU_SOURCE definition, as that is only needed by
>> glibc (see feature_test_macros(7) on Linux).
>
> You can probably judge on this much better than I can. In the early KDE4 days
> I was building kdelibs also on FreeBSD, and maybe some of those things still
> come from that time and were necessary back then.
>
> Could they maybe be necessary for older versions of FreeBSD ?

I built kdelibs with the 3 patches in this series on FreeBSD 7, which is
the oldest release still supported by the FreeBSD project itself, and it
worked fine. I can still try to talk to some developers about the
historical needs for this flag anyway (I don't really have an urgency to
commit this specific patch).
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