--- cfitsio3470/configure	2018-03-01 10:28:51.000000000 -0600
+++ cfitsio3470/configure	2018-12-14 08:39:20.000000000 -0600
@@ -708,6 +708,7 @@
 enable_reentrant
 enable_sse2
 enable_ssse3
+enable_standard_strings
 enable_hera
 with_gsiftp_flavour
 with_gsiftp
@@ -1339,6 +1340,8 @@
                           instruction set
   --enable-ssse3          Enable use of instructions in the SSSE3 extended
                           instruction set
+  --enable-standard-strings
+                          Enable use of FITSIO standard string processing
   --enable-hera           Build for HERA (ASD use only)

 Optional Packages:
@@ -2250,6 +2253,14 @@
 fi


+# Check whether --enable-standard_strings was given.
+if test "${enable_standard_strings+set}" = set; then :
+  enableval=$enable_standard_strings;  if test $enableval = yes; then USE_STANDARD_STRINGS=yes; fi
+
+fi
+
+
+
 # Define BUILD_HERA when building for HERA project to activate code in
 # drvrfile.c (by way of fitsio2.h):
 # Check whether --enable-hera was given.
@@ -5072,6 +5083,15 @@

 fi

+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Define FITS_USE_STANDARD_STRINGS
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+if test "x$USE_STANDARD_STRINGS" = xyes; then
+  $as_echo "#define FITS_USE_STANDARD_STRINGS 1" >>confdefs.h
+
+fi
+
+
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # there are some idiosyncrasies with semun defs (used in semxxx). Solaris
 # does not define it at all