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Date:	Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:35:57 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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CC:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>, George Morgan <george_morgan AT spamcop DOT net>
Subject:	Re: No getline() in stdio.h?
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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
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>> 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 ')?


Nevermind, I found it.  It seems dirname() and basename() are there too:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnulib/gnulib/MODULES.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html

Wouldn't it be nice to have it as a Cygwin package?


Gerrit

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