From: cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: compile problems with gimp 23 Sep 1997 14:05:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19970923120748.20028.qmail@hotmail.com> Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article <19970923120748.20028.qmail@hotmail.com>, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 20:39:02 -0400 >>From: Michael Zawacki >>To: gnuwin >>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 -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".