Re: _GNU_SOURCE

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We've been using it for awhile, and it's not broken anything.  Why are
>> you so eager to make build changes with potentially wide ramifications
>> so late in the beta cycle?

> I don't know what the ramifications of _GNU_SOURCE are, but we have run
> longer without it than with it.  Seems safest to have it only where we
> need it, in plperl.

No can do --- _GNU_SOURCE affects the results of configure.  We either
use it or we don't, we don't get to be selective about it.
        regards, tom lane