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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 04/17] build: define _GNU_SOURCE
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 07:22:37PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> There was an intent to define _GNU_SOURCE globally,
> but it was not set in pkg-config for external applications.
> 
Is this something that we really want to do, to force all external apps to
use _GNU_SOURCE when compiling? Do some of our header files rely on
definitions only available with _GNU_SOURCE? If so, we should probably look
to remove that dependency rather than mandating the define.