Re: [gpsd-dev] featuretest macros

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:45:44 -0700
Hal Murray <address@hidden> wrote:

> address@hidden said:
> > Definitely; I don't really think we can get rid of them.  But as an
> > example, defining _XOPEN_SOURCE to something and then defining
> > _NETBSD_SOURCE is basically a noop, at least on NetBSD.   So if we
> > can prune, that would be good.   

We just rexecntly discovered that NETBSD_SOURCE is required to get
NetBSD to work without warnings.

> It might be interesting to start with none, see how well that works,

Greg Troxel just suggest that patch.  Fails on  Gentoo.

> and then add specific tweaks for older OS/distros and document which
> OS/distro/version so they can be retired when GPSD drops support for
> that version.

Which is what I spent the first part of June doing.  You'll notice
is git log a lot of defines removed.  A lot more to go.

RGDS
GARY
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