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Re: compiling on Nto...


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: compiling on Nto...
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:22:34 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:11:38AM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > >   * QNX needed to include <strings.h> for many of the useful string 
> > > functions.
> > 
> > Ok,
> > Which one was POSIX/ANSI C again? <string.h> or <strings.h> ?
> > I think it is <string.h>,  <strings.h> is the obsolete one and bet
> > that strcasecmp which is not part of POSIX is define in <strings.h>
> 
> According to Harbisson and Steele, the header for ISO C is <string.h>
> 
> They make no reference to strcasecmp, but the Linux man pages say that
> it's a BSD 4.4 extension.  Libiberty has a portable version.

Noted.  I added support for platform missing this.
lib/str(n)casecmp.c

> > Another POSIX thing. basename() is not posix.  But I thing the latest
> > UNIX98 says it can be in libgen.h.
> 
> libiberty also has this.

Good point.  Change the code to use lib/basename.c:base_name()

Thanks.

--
alain




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