Package: g++-3.2 Version: 1:3.2.1-0pre3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream GCC 3.2 appears to define _GNU_SOURCE unconditionally. This is somewhat unhelpful if one wishes to use the feature selection macros provided by glibc to choose which APIs are provided by the library.
This appears to be a long-standing upstream decision: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-11/msg01084.html although I can't see any discussion of motivation for this. Grovelling around on the GCC website it appears that the issue is that libstdc++ needs _GNU_SOURCE although I can't quite be sure about that. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux damiel 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #9 Sun Jun 9 13:02:50 BST 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB Versions of packages g++-3.2 depends on: ii gcc-3.2 1:3.2.1-0pre3 The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-3.2-base 1:3.2.1-0pre3 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++5-dev 1:3.2.1-0pre3 The GNU stdc++ library version 3 ( -- no debconf information
