Subject: Re: v2.35.0 DEVELOPER=1 regression

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:53:43 -0800

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Wow, that sounds horribly broken.
>
> Yes, but it's also working as designed :) We're erroring because the C
> library headers on the OS aren't C99-compliant. That it would apply to
> only git.git's sources was only ever wishful thinking.

No, C library supporting only C11 is perfectly fine.  On such a
system, the compiler shouldn't even support -std=gnu99.  That is
what I consider broken.