re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/xlint/lint1

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Alan Barrett writes:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, matthew green wrote:
> >> don't include fmemopen in tools builds. Since tools does not 
> >> define _NETBSD_SOURCE, we don't get the fmemopen prototype
> >
> > hmm.... is that because we define _SOMEOTHER_SOURCE?
> >
> > _NETBSD_SOURCE should be defined normally, unless you start to 
> > ask for restricted namespaces...
> 
> src/tools/compat/compat_defs.h goes to a lot of trouble to ensure 
> that _NETBSD_SOURCE does not get defined.  I don't understand why 
> that is done.

indeed.

that's probably a good idea in general -- it means that we're
going to have a restricted environment for tools, even on netbsd,
which helps keep them portable to other platforms.


.mrg.