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John Emmas wrote:

> I'm about to build another library called "liblo".  This library uses
> various functions with names like getaddrinfo(), freeaddrinfo() etc
> (all of which are declared in /usr/include/gettaddrinfo.h).  On my
> Linux box, these functions reside in 'libc.a' - but in Cygwin, they're
> in a different library, called 'libgetaddrinfo.a'.  Once again, this isn't
> currently know to liblo's build scripts.

Uh, what?  getaddrinfo() is implemented in Cygwin itself, which is the
equivalent of -lc and is implicitly included in every link, so you
should need no such external library at all.

> The library is in a standard directory, so to include it, do I simply type:-
> 
> ./configure LDFLAGS="-lgetaddrinfo"

The proper variable for -l flags is LIBS not LDFLAGS.

Brian

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