From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: compile problems with gimp
23 Sep 1997 17:52:31 -0700
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>From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
>Subject: Re: compile problems with gimp
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:49:55 GMT
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>
>In article <19970923120748 DOT 20028 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com>,
>Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:39:02 -0400
>>>From: Michael Zawacki <mjz115 AT psu DOT edu>
>>>To: gnuwin <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>>>Subject: compile problems with gimp
>>>
>>>    I have come across an "undefined reference to" setpwent.  Has 
>>anyone
>>>heard of this function.  Gimp calls it with no parameters, and I 
can't
>>>find it in any of the include files in X11 or cygwin. Is this a motif
>>>call?
>>
>>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
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Now why didn't I think of that??

Thanks,

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