Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Robert Bercik cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: where the %^$ is dirname() and basename() In-Reply-To: <20030107231903.44790.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Robert, When you do implement them, you might as well help other programmers in need of them by submitting them as patches against the current cygwin CVS to cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com. See for patch conventions. Igor On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robert Bercik wrote: > crap, > > they're so damn simple, I'll write the damn things... > > thanks, > -Rob > --- Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0800, Robert > > Bercik wrote: > > >Cygwin must have these functions somewhere, but for the life of me i > > >can't find the libs or headers. Anybody know where dirname() or > > >basename() are located? > > > > Let me say it again: There is no mystery here. If > > you get a linker > > error like: "undefined reference to '_basename'", in > > 90% of the cases it > > means exactly what it implies: basename is not > > available. > > > > Whether it should be available, whether it is a > > crime against man and > > nature that it is not available, whether the lack of > > the function > > greatly impacts someone's ability to do their job, > > is another issue, of > > course. > > > > Until someone provides working implementations of > > basename and dirname > > for cygwin, I suggest that you work around the > > problem. > > > > cgf -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/