libreadline.dll.a missing functions.

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Wed Jan 17 15:32:00 GMT 2001


Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> I was testing configurations of bash-2.04 and decided to try the
> cygreadline.dll.  After ensuring that the make wasn't going to be using
> bashes included lib/readline and changing the -lreadline to
> -lreadline.dll I receive notice that some of the functions aren't
> defined.  One such is _rl_set_screen_size.  I find it in the static
> version but not the /bin/cygreadline.dll nor it's accompanying import
> library.

I'll check into this, but note that you shouldn't have to specify
"-lreadline.dll".  The current ld will automatically search for
"libfoo.dll.a" *before* "libfoo.a" when you specify "-lfoo".  To
*prevent* this behavior, you must tell it "-Bstatic" or tell gcc
"-static" when linking.

--Chuck


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