In our C library we try to provide a "clean" POSIX/ISO-C set of include
files that strictly conforming applications can use. However, we also
want to provide some extensions that are commonly available in BSD or
GNU systems.
These are normally provided in a separate directory
(headers/compatibility/bsd) and additionally guarded by compiler defines
that can either be explicitly set, or enabled by default if the language
standard (selected from the compiler command line) is one with GNU
extensions (this is the default for GCC). This is controlled by a header
file called features.h.
However, for some headers it is not so simple to split the GNU
extensions apart from the other parts of the file, because it's not just
extra functions, but additional flags and defines.
So, we need the "features.h" mechanism to be available even in the base
set of headers, but not enable anything if the BSD headers are not in
the search path. The simplest way to achieve this is to have an empty
features.h in the base set of headers, that can then be overriden by the
one in headers/compatibility/bsd if needed.
Fixes#18732
Change-Id: Ia54d1206c2fba378ae276ed4232aee8443180afb
Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/7287
Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>
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