Re: Native build fails in winsup/cygwin/libc/strptime.cc because of strtou?l_l()

["Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>]

Am 24.08.2016 um 10:28 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Aug 24 00:19, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> building the git version of cygwin natively on Cygwin-2.5.3, I'm running
>> into a problem with strtoul_l / strtol_l. winsup/cygwin/libc/strptime.cc
>> fails to build:
>> [...]
>>
>> Looking at the .ii file, it appears __GNU_VISIBLE is not active for this C++
>> source file?
>
> Yes, we discussed this already yesterday on the Freenode #cygwin-developers
> IRC channel.  The reason is that sys/cdefs.h is included before winsup.h
> is included, the latter defining _GNU_SOURCE.

Ah, yes.  That would do it.  The build does indeed work now, with the 
fix in git.  Thanks.

[...]
> That's pretty weird since _GNU_SOURCE is not supposed to be defined
> by the compiler or C preprocessor at all.

Well, it could be the specs file "contributing" it...


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