Re: [PATCH] make git compile on old version of engarde linux

Quoting r. Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

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This looks familiar; did the build error out when compiling
convert-objects.c by any chance? I suspect you have the same problem
that I encountered.  My fix was posted in "[PATCH 6/10] Fix header breakage
with _XOPEN_SOURCE."

I have included my earlier mail message inline below, in case you wish
to confirm the that it fixes things for you too.

Alternatively Ramsay's _XOPEN_SOURCE patch is part of "next", so
if it fixes the problem for you that would confirm the patch is
a good one to have.

BTW, would it make sense fr this patch to be cherry-picked into 1.4.8?
I guess the reason that LNK macros are under GNU_SOURCE is the following
text from stat(2):
 
       The S_ISLNK and S_ISSOCK macros
       are not in POSIX.1-1996, but both will be in the next  POSIX  standard;
       the former is from SVID 4v2, the latter from SUSv2.

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