Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/07/20:03:29
Robert,
When you do implement them, you might as well help other programmers in
need of them by submitting them as patches against the current cygwin CVS
to cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com. See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>
for patch conventions.
Igor
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robert Bercik wrote:
> crap,
>
> they're so damn simple, I'll write the damn things...
>
> thanks,
> -Rob
> --- Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0800, Robert
> > Bercik wrote:
> > >Cygwin must have these functions somewhere, but for the life of me i
> > >can't find the libs or headers. Anybody know where dirname() or
> > >basename() are located?
> >
> > Let me say it again: There is no mystery here. If
> > you get a linker
> > error like: "undefined reference to '_basename'", in
> > 90% of the cases it
> > means exactly what it implies: basename is not
> > available.
> >
> > Whether it should be available, whether it is a
> > crime against man and
> > nature that it is not available, whether the lack of
> > the function
> > greatly impacts someone's ability to do their job,
> > is another issue, of
> > course.
> >
> > Until someone provides working implementations of
> > basename and dirname
> > for cygwin, I suggest that you work around the
> > problem.
> >
> > cgf
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