[m-users.] New Debian packages

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 03:45:57 +0000 (UTC), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> > That was a false alarm -- I do get those warnings, but the code
> > compiles and runs anyway.
> 
> Depending on which versions GCC / glibc you are using the resolution to
> that situation is to put GCC into gnu99 or gnu11 mode, since
> _{BSD,SVI}_SOURCE will be defined if GCC thinks that it's targetting an
> older dialect of C.  That may not be necessary for more recent GCC's
> which, apparently, no longer think that it is 1989.

The obvious question is: why isn't the configure script doing that?

Zoltan.