Posted by Rich Felker on Nov 09 I didn't see you'd also asked this on-list, so copying my answer here: This will possibly be changed (to always return null for failure) in the next release cycle anyway, but as a general principle we don't do behavioral build options. This was a very intentional choice from seeing how things went with uclibc and the combinatorics of build-time options that developers aren't familiar with when things break for users

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