Re: Can't build libposix

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Reuben,
>>
>> I've fixed the version.c and bootstrap problems, but I don't think we
>> ever settled on the right way to deal with not having `program_name`
>> defined at build time.
>>
>> If you are on a glibc system, I think the library provides the necessary
>> symbol and you should be able to build a working libposix from the topic
>> branch after a git pull. Otherwise you'll have to link in the progname
>> module, or similar to resolve it... until we come up with a blessed
>> method for dealing with it properly.
>
> Since I'm using glibc, I don't mind, but why is it a problem for a
> library? Doesn't it just place a requirement on the program linking
> against it, in the same way that the C runtime system does on main?

i have posted some code for solving the prog name issue

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