Re: strdup falsely detected when CFLAGS contains -ansi on MSYS/MinGW (gcc)

[Andreas Schwab]

Chris Pickett <address@hidden> writes:

> When -ansi is passed to GCC, strdup becomes unavailable on MSYS/MinGW, but
> autoconf still detects the existence of strdup.  The mingw string.h is in
> /mingw/include/string.h, and includes some funny stuff with #ifndef
> __STRICT_ANSI__ and later #ifndef _NO_OLDNAMES.  The former gets defined
> by GCC with -ansi, the latter I couldn't see where it gets defined if at
> all.

If you want to use extensions you should use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.

Andreas.

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