andy5995 commented on this pull request.
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ if test -n "${build}" -a -n "${target}"; then
GEANY_STATUS_ADD([Building Geany for], [${target}]) fi
-# why do we use this? +# If possible, enable extensions to C or Posix on hosts that normally +# disable the extensions, typically due to standards-conformance +# namespace issues. This should be called before any macros that run the +# C compiler. +# https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Posix-Variants.html
P.S. My guess is that the macro isn't needed, or not being utilized atm. I don't see that _GNU_SOURCE is being defined with a flag during compiling, nor is the `-std=gnu` flag being used.