Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Teach Solaris that _XOPEN_SOURCE=600 really menas XPG6

[Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>]

On May 23, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> In git-compat-util.h, we do
>
>    #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
>    #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1
>
> unless we are on BSD or SCO.
>
> On OpenSolaris (200811), /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h has this  
> nice
> table:
>
>    Feature Test Macro				     Specification
>    ------------------------------------------------  -------------
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE                                         XPG3
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_VERSION = 4                   XPG4
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED = 1           XPG4v2
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE = 500                                   XPG5
>    _XOPEN_SOURCE = 600  (or POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L)      XPG6
>
> Later in the same header, compilation with -c99 is made to fail if  
> _XPG6 is
> not set, like this:
>
>    #if defined(_STDC_C99) && (defined(__XOPEN_OR_POSIX) && ! 
> defined(_XPG6))
>    #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open  
> applications \
>            and pre-2001 POSIX applications"
>    #elif ...
>
> The problem is that they check things in an order that is  
> inconvenient for
> us.  When they see _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, they declare that we are  
> XPG4v2,
> regardless of the value of _XOPEN_SOURCE.
>
> To work around this problem, do not define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED on
> Sun's.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
> git-compat-util.h |    2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
> index c7cf2d5..4236647 100644
> --- a/git-compat-util.h
> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
> @@ -41,8 +41,10 @@
>
> #if !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(__FreeBSD__)  && ! 
> defined(__USLC__) && !defined(_M_UNIX)
> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 /* glibc2 and AIX 5.3L need 500, OpenBSD  
> needs 600 for S_ISLNK() */
> +#ifndef __sun__
> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 /* AIX 5.3L needs this */
> #endif
> +#endif
> #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> #define _BSD_SOURCE 1
> -- 
> 1.6.3.1.145.gb74d77
>

Until this commit a simple 'make prefix=...' worked just fine. Now I  
have to explicitly add '-std=c99' to the gcc commandline. Is there a  
reason why the makefile doesn't add this switch automatically?

tom