Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
> > > On Solaris flockfile and friends aren't visible by default. [...]
> > 
> > Do you know a reliable environment variable that can be used to detect
> > Solaris and friends?
> 
>   When compiling C code, I check for __SunOS.  As for environment variable,
> I just logged into our Solaris systems and found
> 
> 	$HOSTTYPE
> 	$MACHTYPE
> 
> set ("sparc" and "sparc-sun-solaris2.10" respectively).  I don't know if
> those will always be set.  

Can you check whether Lua compiles if you define
-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L (or just -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE),
instead of -D_REENTRANT? Would you have any reason to prefer
one to another?

-- Roberto