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Re: Host requirements to build the Tools binaries



At Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:57:47 +1200, Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Host requirements to build the Tools binaries
> 
> On Thu, 2024-08-29 at 16:53 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > I will of course happily to test builds in any direction, but in
> > which direction do we want to proceed? Just do a few small patches to
> > avoid those functions that aren't declared easily? Update the stuff
> > that needs further updates and go for -D_GNU_SOURCE?
> 
> I do not believe that it is right to use -D_GNU_SOURCE because we
> aren't writing GNU software. The definitions I added seem to be what
> GNU/Linux documents and they seem to work if you want to get the
> current code working with GCC 14. kre has raised an important issue
> with this approach though, and I'll discuss that in a separate email.

Some NetBSD tools _are_ GNU Software.  To me that means their source
should define _GNU_SOURCE by definition and by default, but if they
don't then NetBSD _MUST_ do it for them when building on a GNU or
GNU-like platform.

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