From: David Sommerseth Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:16:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1481631416-15377-1-git-send-email-davids@...515...> Subject: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Changes.rst: Mainatiner update on C99 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mention for maintainers that we've moved to build with -std=c99 by default. Also document that 32-bit RHEL5 builds will need -std=gnu99 to be buildable. --- Changes.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Changes.rst b/Changes.rst index a5002dd..056bcec 100644 --- a/Changes.rst +++ b/Changes.rst @@ -291,3 +291,9 @@ Maintainer-visible changes - Linux distributions using systemd is highly encouraged to ship these new unit files instead of older ones, to provide a unified behaviour across systemd based Linux distributions. + +- With OpenVPN v2.4, the project have moved over to depend on and actively use + the official C99 standard (-std=c99). This may on some older compiler/libc + headers combinations fail. On most of these situations it is recommended to + do use -std=gnu99 in CFLAGS. This is known to be needed when doing + i386/i686 builds on RHEL5. -- 1.8.3.1