Re: FVWM: unable to compile without strerror

From: Cameron Simpson <cameron_at_research.canon.com.au>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:33:58 +1100 (EST)

Jason Wong <jawong_at_cisco.com> writes:
| This may be a dumb question, but I am having problems compiling FVWM95 all
| the modules compile and even the fvwm95-2 however when I go to launch the
| app it reports that ld: undefined error strerror
| Does anyone know where strerror can be found???

If there's not one ifdeffed into the source, use the one below.
But _all_ ANSI C implementations are required to supply this - what
platform are you compiling this on?
        - Cameron Simpson
          cameron_at_research.canon.com.au, DoD#743
          http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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#include	<errno.h>
/* inline strerror() routine for UNIX beasts - needs POSIXising, etc */
#define		Strerror(n)	(((n) < 0 || (n) >= sys_nerr) \
					? "error number out of range" \
					: sys_errlist[n])
#ifdef		cs_STDC_strerror
char *
strerror(       size_t	n)
{
	return Strerror(n);
}
#endif
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Received on Thu Nov 14 1996 - 16:35:05 GMT