Subject: Re: compile problems with gimp
From: [email-masked] (Bizzaro)

24 Sep 1997 15:52:22 -0700
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> >>Although "setpwent" is correct, it is misspelled in libcygwin.a as
> >>"setpwend".  If you substitute setpwent with setpwend it should link
> >>fine.
> >>
> >>By the way the version of libcygwin.a from Sergey Okhapkin know as
> >>coolview has this corrected.  However, if you are using a FAT
> directory
> >>structure that gets created and grows quickly, so don't use it.
> >
> >Sergey's stuff is quite nice, and you really should use it, but if you
> >can't, it is relatively easy to edit the file with 'vim -b' or emacs
> >and change all occurrences of setpwend to setpwent.
> >
> >cgf
> 
> Now why didn't I think of that??
> 
> Thanks,

Doing a search/replace in all the files is too much hassle, I just added a line
to one of the .h's of "#define setpwent setpwent" and let gcc do the replacing
:).
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