56 – patch 2.5.4 needs _GNU_SOURCE to be defined at compile time

Bug 56 - patch 2.5.4 needs _GNU_SOURCE to be defined at compile time

Summary: patch 2.5.4 needs _GNU_SOURCE to be defined at compile time

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Bryon Roche (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-01-06 17:53 UTC by TheMadHatter
Modified:	2009-08-21 11:14 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description TheMadHatter 2002-01-06 17:53:30 UTC

for it to work on ppc. (i know, it's not supported)
you can patch the makefile after the ./configure step
and add -D_GNU_SOURCE flag to the DEFS variable.

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-17 11:06:43 UTC

Is this still an issue in the newest revision of the patch ebuild?

Comment 2 Bryon Roche (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-29 20:21:07 UTC

Yeps this works fine now for current patch (at least 2.5.4-r4)