Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<42CD1F8F.9070000@familiehaase.de>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:26:55 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
CC:	George Morgan <george_morgan AT spamcop DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: No getline() in stdio.h?
References:	<20050707041233 DOT 7k8444kw00cc8w48 AT webmail DOT spamcop DOT net> <42CD1950 DOT 10101 AT byu DOT net>
In-Reply-To:	<42CD1950.10101@byu.net>
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

Eric Blake wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> According to George Morgan on 7/7/2005 2:12 AM:
> 
>>Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in cygwin's
>>stdio.h and it is not there!  Did it get removed?  Yeah, I found the __getline
>>but when I changed my C code to use that the linker does not find it.  This is
>>with cygwin DLL version 1.5.18 and gcc 3.4.4.  Maybe I need to use an older
>>compiler?
> 
> 
> An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code.
> gnulib is currently designed for CVS use only (so there is no cygwin
> distribution), but projects like coreutils use gnulib getline() and other
> modules to make up for non-standard functions that are missing in various
> platform libraries. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/


Same approach as libgen? Are dirname() and basename() included?

I would appreciate if at least the included functions could be listed in
the manual.  However, it isn't.  Do you have the archive handy and if 
so, would you please dump a list of included symbols
(nm libgnulib.a | grep ' T ')?


Gerrit

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -