Robert, When you do implement them, you might as well help other programmers in need of them by submitting them as patches against the current cygwin CVS to cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com. See <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> for patch conventions. Igor
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Robert Bercik wrote: > crap, > > they're so damn simple, I'll write the damn things... > > thanks, > -Rob > --- Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:37:03PM -0800, Robert > > Bercik wrote: > > >Cygwin must have these functions somewhere, but for the life of me i > > >can't find the libs or headers. Anybody know where dirname() or > > >basename() are located? > > > > Let me say it again: There is no mystery here. If > > you get a linker > > error like: "undefined reference to '_basename'", in > > 90% of the cases it > > means exactly what it implies: basename is not > > available. > > > > Whether it should be available, whether it is a > > crime against man and > > nature that it is not available, whether the lack of > > the function > > greatly impacts someone's ability to do their job, > > is another issue, of > > course. > > > > Until someone provides working implementations of > > basename and dirname > > for cygwin, I suggest that you work around the > > problem. > > > > cgf -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/