Re: FVWM: compilation problems

From: James A. Basilio <j2b_at_icf.hrb.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:53:13 -0400 (EDT)

It's all fixed now. I did the responsible thing and deleted the line. :)
Thanks to everyone for making me realize what it was.

-Jim

On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann_at_charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >>>>>> James A Basilio writes:
> >
> > JAB> can anyone give me a tip as to how to fix this error message?
> > JAB> ld: Undefined symbol
> > JAB> _strerror
> >
> >You get 2.0.43 where this is fixed (I think) or you just fix it
> >yourself: strerror(x) can be substituted with sys_errlist[x] on
> >SunOS. Just:
> >
> > #ifdef <Variable_that_sez_SunOS_goes_here>
> > #define strerror(x) sys_errlist[x]
> > #endif
> >
> >somewhere.
>
> Actually the above #define is not safe. Consider what happens when (x)
> is outside the range [0..sys_nerr). A better choice is to get a copy of
> strerror(3) from 4.4BSD, FreeBSD2.x, Linux, bind-4.9.[34] or similar.
>
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