cannot compile function containing "get_current_dir_name"

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Tue Aug 21 12:50:00 GMT 2007


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According to Rainer Stamen on 8/21/2007 2:09 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to compile a program which contains a call to
> "get_current_dir_name".  The compiler complains that the fucntion is
> undeclared.

Probably because cygwin does not declare a function by that name.

> From checking the archives I learned that the problem
> existed already in the past. However the proposed fix (add #define
> _GNU_SOURCE) seems not to work for me.

Are you sure you didn't mean to use getcwd(), which cygwin DOES define,
and without the need for _GNU_SOURCE, because it is specified by POSIX?

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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