diff --git a/src/server/distrend.c b/src/server/distrend.c
--- a/src/server/distrend.c
+++ b/src/server/distrend.c
@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@
 
 /* This file contains the code which both processes (renders) jobs as a slave, and the code which distributes frames to slaves after receiving them from the client portion of the codebase. */
 
-/*
-  To get getline():
- */
-#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
-
 #include "execio.h"
 #include "options.h"
 #include "distrenjob.h"