Jack Jansen wrote:
The comment in pyconfig.h suggests that defining _POSIX_C_SOURCE may
enable certain features, but the actual system headers appear to work
the other way around: it seems that defining this will disable features
that are not strict Posix.
Does anyone know what the real meaning
On a platform I won't mention here I'm running into problems compiling
Python, because of it defining _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
It turns out that on this platform the definition causes all sorts of
declarations in sys/types.h to be skipped (presumably because they're
not official Posix identifiers), whi
[Jack Jansen]
> On a platform I won't mention here I'm running into problems compiling
> Python, because of it defining _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
...
> Does anyone know what the real meaning of this define is?
LOL. Here's the Official Story:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_cha