[mercury-users] MGNUC: problem with missing macros definitions

[Simon Taylor]

On 15-Dec-2001, Ondrej Bojar <oboj7042 at ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> I would like to use the strdup() function in my C++ code, let's say in
> cpp_main.cc in the sample. strdup() is defined in string.h, so I expected
> that #include <string.h> will help the compiler to find strdup()
> definition.
> 
> Unfortunately, the string.h defines strdup() only
> #if defined __USE_SVID || defined __USE_BSD || defined __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED

> If I use the Mmakefile in the samples directory to build cpp_main.o with
> MGNUC, it fails, since MGNUC doesn't define any of the required macros.
> 
> Also, adding -D__USE_BSD (for example) to MGNUCFLAGS won't help. Mgnuc
> for whatever reason calls gcc more than once and passes the -D only in the
> first run.

mgnuc only invokes gcc once. If you are using glibc, look at
/usr/include/features.h. The first thing it does is to undefine
__USE_BSD and other macros that aren't meant to be set by the user.
 
> What should I modify to make this work?

Try adding `--no-ansi' to MGNUCFLAGS.
 
> I expect similar problem to occur anytime in anything, so is there a
> manual on gcc and standard libraries and their options that I could read?

See the "Feature Test Macros" section of the glibc Info file (libc.info).

Simon.
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