Re: pkg/49782 (textproc/mdocml won't build on Solaris)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: pkg/49782 (textproc/mdocml won't build on Solaris)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 20:00:47 -0400

 On May 28,  9:25pm, jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost (Jonathan Perkin) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: pkg/49782 (textproc/mdocml won't build on Solaris)
 
 |  > I believe that __foo__ symbols are the new and preferred way, where
 |  > __foo are historical...
 |  
 |  GCC defines both, but I believe Studio only defines __sun.
 |  
 |  Just use __sun, as we already do in the vast majority of patches.
 
 Doing both is safer... There are many symbols where __foo__ is
 defined and __foo is not. I can think of one important example
 (__STDC__). Having a unified rule for all of them is less thinking
 when you need to decide what to code.
 
 christos