>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> AIX and Interix use _ALL_SOURCE, Solaris uses __EXTENSIONS__,
Paul> GNU uses _GNU_SOURCE, HP/UX uses _HPUX_SOURCE, and Minix uses
Paul> _MINIX, _POSIX_SOURCE and _POSIX_1_SOURCE.  Currently these
Paul> symbols are scattered over several macros (AC_PROG_CC,
Paul> AC_GNU_SOURCE, AC_AIX, AC_MINIX) but perhaps they should all be
Paul> folded into AC_PROG_CC (with an option to turn them off,
Paul> perhaps?).  

I agree: they should be on by default.  I'm not sure the options are a
good thing: Autoconf should provide an illusion of uniform behavior
accross hosts and packages.  If it doesn't suit a specific package for
some reasons, then it should probably be attached to a feature (some
functions?) rather than to CC.


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