On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote: > On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> 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 > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > >
