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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:30:57 +0200
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: why is there no __MUSL__ macro?
Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc@...rnet.org> writes:
>> FFmpeg needs support for library features defined in POSIX.1-2001
>> with XSI extension and the standards below. Currently configure
>> probes the host and target libc by checking for defined macros like
>> __GLIBC__ and __UCLIBC__. In case of glibc and uclibc it sets
>> -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 properly.
>
> Why not set this macro unconditionally ?
> All standards-compliant libcs will make the correct symbols visible
> if you define _XOPEN_SOURCE to a certain value. This include glibc,
> uClibc, musl, and most other modern libcs. Some systems are
> notoriously broken (I'm thinking of FreeBSD, which makes a few
> standard symbols *not* visible when you define the correct macro),
> but they should be the ones with specialcasing if you need to
> support them.
OT, but when you report these to freebsd-standards, they'll be resolved
quickly. That is at least my experience.
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com> http://chneukirchen.org
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