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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdbm/package.py10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdbm/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdbm/package.py
index bbe9698b38..5898d8ca78 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdbm/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gdbm/package.py
@@ -46,4 +46,12 @@ class Gdbm(AutotoolsPackage):
depends_on("readline")
def configure_args(self):
- return ['--enable-libgdbm-compat']
+
+ # GDBM uses some non-standard GNU extensions,
+ # enabled with -D_GNU_SOURCE. See:
+ # https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/771300/
+ # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5582211
+ # https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Flag-Variables-Ordering.html
+ return [
+ '--enable-libgdbm-compat',
+ 'CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE']