Re: declaration of strptime

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:10:18PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> The specific problem is that these packages simply followed the Linux
> instructions to "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE"...  And between the autoconf
> stuff and the pkgsrc stuff, I can't really tell what's in effect here
> -- all I'm certain of is that strptime() was not being declared
> properly until I patched the #define.

The Linux instructions are, to put it gently, stupid.  They're telling
anyone who wants to use the strptime function that they should define
a feature macro that *disables* anything in the namespace not specified
by X/Open -- this is almost certainly not what's wanted.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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