Sigh. The _GNU_SOURCE is needed for the struct crypt_data

in Mandrake 8.2.  Now we need to figure out a way not to
unbreak Apache.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15357

diff --git a/hints/linux.sh b/hints/linux.sh
index d09f076..4c40980 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/linux.sh
+++ b/hints/linux.sh
@@ -249,23 +249,21 @@ esac
 cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
 case "$usethreads" in
 $define|true|[yY]*)
-        ccflags="-D_REENTRANT $ccflags"
+        ccflags="-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE $ccflags"
         set `echo X "$libswanted "| sed -e 's/ c / pthread c /'`
         shift
         libswanted="$*"
 
        # Somehow at least in Debian 2.2 these manage to escape
        # the #define forest of <features.h> and <time.h> so that
-       # the hasproto macro of Configure doesn't see these protos.
-       # -D_GNU_SOURCE has been suggested but it breaks other software
-       # (like Apache).
+       # the hasproto macro of Configure doesn't see these protos,
+       # even with the -D_GNU_SOURCE.
 
        d_asctime_r_proto="$define"
        d_crypt_r_proto="$define"
        d_ctime_r_proto="$define"
        d_gmtime_r_proto="$define"
        d_localtime_r_proto="$define"
-       d_readdir64_r_proto="$define"
 
        ;;
 esac