Compilation error on GNU/kFreeBSD, fixes Bug ID 3392794 and Debian #630349

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4a67eca9043294739edb7989e6ffff9360e7113f..d2ca2c81006da8b423d44056571dc16f352f52fb 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Changes in 2.2.1
 * FIX: Sourcecode distribution: add missing headers
 * FIX: Solaris 10: missing dirfd replacement function
 * FIX: case-conversion of surrogate pair
+* FIX: Compilation error on GNU/kFreeBSD, fixes Bug ID 3392794 and Debian #630349
 
 Changes in 2.2
 ==============

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4d3ed242899ee381b12bc63050a4caff7f486046..7c939c200f103d0394130a55e45cd53faebd0613 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -548,6 +548,8 @@ dnl --------------------- GNU source
 case "$this_os" in
        linux)  AC_DEFINE(_GNU_SOURCE, 1, [Whether to use GNU libc extensions])
         ;;
+     *kfreebsd-gnu*) AC_DEFINE(_GNU_SOURCE, 1, [Whether to use GNU libc extensions])
+        ;;
 esac
 
 dnl --------------------- operating system specific flags (port from sys/*)