Re: Gutenprint 5.3.5-pre1 Release

Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:38:30 -0400

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 08:26:56PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Strictly, a program should specify --std=cNN for the variant it is
> written in.  But I think the default -- so far -- is almost always c99
> so often this doesn't happen.

gcc jumped from 'gnu89' straight to 'gnu11' and currently defaults to 
'gnu17'.  At no point did GCC ever default to c99 (or gnu99).

> I ran make check, and it passed ppds and is still going.

This will take some hours depending on the speed of your system.

> I don't have an inkjet printer any more, but from my viewpoint the only
> thing wrong is the POSIX_C_SOURCE define.

Upstream will _not_ apply this as it will break compilation on 
bog-standard Linux systems.

What does 'man strdup' and 'man localtime_r' list as requirements for 
use on these problematic platforms?

 - Solomon
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