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

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49782; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49782 (textproc/mdocml won't build on Solaris)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:36:14 +0000

 On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:05:01AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  |  > 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.
 
 That's why pkglint is there to keep track of it for us...
 
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