Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I'm not happy with defining _GNU_SOURCE, but I don't agree that > just saying "it's a Perl problem" is a good answer. That may well be > the case, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are > running 5.8.0, and will probably continue to do so during the 7.3 > lifecycle[1]. We work around braindamage on other systems -- strictely > speaking, we could say "the snprintf() bug with 64-bit Solaris is a > Sun libc problem", for example.
Well, I'm not opposed to a workaround in principle; I'm just unconvinced that this is the right solution. Do we understand what is broken and why -D_GNU_SOURCE fixes it? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly