[syslinux] [PATCH] remove _BSD_SOURCE definition

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 10:11:57 PDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Chanho Park <chanho61.park at samsung.com> wrote:
> The _BSD_SOURCE was deprecated since glibc-2.20. _DEFAULT_SOURCE can be
> used instead of _BSD_SOURCE. However, there is no need to include
> _BSD_SOURCE because the sources only have inline functions and calls
> memcmp/cpy functions.

Testing this myself on my build boxes, I see no issue.  The biggest
thought I'd have is would there be a possibility of a platform that
can still suitably build Sylinux (presume only bios architecture for
now) but break with this patch?

-- 
-Gene


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