Re: [gpsd-dev] featuretest macros

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:50:36 -0400
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > What is a "correct warning?  
> 
> The ones I sent a few days ago were on netbsd-8.  By correct, I meant
> that reading the source, I concur with the compiler that a warning is
> in order.

Which differs from the gpsd preference of "no warnings", if possible.

These are the one you sent earlier this week?

> >> Certainly, if one defines _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700 and does not define
> >> _NETBSD_SOURCE, then there are lots of undeclared functions.
> >> Which is correct, as _XOPEN_SOURCE is a request to make visible
> >> the symbols specified by that standard, and no more.  
> >
> > Uh, which is it now?  You need _NETBSD_SOURCE, or not?  
> 
> I do not need it, unless I also have XOPEN_SOURCE, in which case I do.
> Because the default behavior is to implicitly define _NETBSD_SOURCE
> unless some other visibility defines are present.

And they are, from Python.h

> > And we can't remove _XOPEN_SOURCE, and others, from gpsd as Python.h
> > defines it.  Not much t gpsd without Python.h  
> 
> That is arguably a bug in python.

Yes, exactly my thoughts.  Please file a bug upstream.

RGDS
GARY
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