Here is an email from the DBD:pg guys describing what _GNU_SOURCE does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > It's a glibc thing. > > Look at glibc's include/features.h: > > _GNU_SOURCE All of the above, plus GNU extensions. > > Which means it enables all this: > > __STRICT_ANSI__, _ISOC99_SOURCE, _POSIX_SOURCE, _POSIX_C_SOURCE, > _XOPEN_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, _LARGEFILE_SOURCE, > _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE, _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=N, _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono > PGP fingerprint: 2D92 980E 45FE 2C28 9DB7 9D88 97E6 839B 2EAC 625B > http://www.tendra.org/ | http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/diary/ > There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we > were happy... > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings