Re: Compiling under Linux

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:24:14PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    BTW, the right way to fix the FNM_* issue is to #define _GNU_SOURCE.
> 
> That is not the right way at all.  Not all systems use the GNU C
> library, so this will not work on those systems.
> 
> From a quick peek in the findutils CVS it already does what is right;
> it checks if FNM_CASEFOLD is defined, and if it is not, then it gets
> defined (see [findutils]/m4/fnmatchcase.m4).

I aggree, it does what's right.  It checks whether the fnmatch in glibc
has all we need (see m4/fnmatchcase.m4), and if it doesn't it uses the
copy distributed with findutils.

The source contains #define _GNU_SOURCE.
This is important both if the system libc was glibc and if we happen
to use the included copy of fnmatch.

Cheers,
        Stepan Kasal