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

"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

I originally scheduled it for immediately after 1.4.2 but I
would say why not.  It makes sense and does not seem to break
for people (otherwise I would have heard screams, hopefully).