From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1750 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Best bikeshed ever (feature test macros) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:59:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20120824235951.GA30997@port70.net> References: <20120824214138.GA17792@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345852804 22981 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2012 00:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:04 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1751-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Aug 25 02:00:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T53nJ-0006U6-3B for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17843 invoked by uid 550); 25 Aug 2012 00:00:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17835 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2012 00:00:03 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120824214138.GA17792@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1750 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [2012-08-24 17:41:38 -0400]: > 1. Leaving everything as it is. > > 2. Making the kitchen sink (_GNU_SOURCE) available by default. > > 3. Making only some limited subset (e.g. POSIX base) available by > default. > i havent built many tools with musl yet so i don't know the extent of the practical issues but i generally like the current approach the only problem i see is that there are too many feature test macros so the headers are harder to maintain