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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:53:50 -0500
From:      Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>
To:        freebsd@voidmain.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getline function
Message-ID:  <1140296030.24729.1.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
In-Reply-To: <43F760D8.6000506@voidmain.net>
References:  <43F68C7D.9010403@voidmain.net> <1140233843.982.21.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <43F760D8.6000506@voidmain.net>

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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 13:00 -0500, Tom Grove wrote:
> Mike Jeays wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:54 -0500, Tom Grove wrote:
> >   
> >> Is there anyone who can compile a program using the getline() function?  
> >> Here is a really simple program to recreate the following error:
> >>
> >> ##Error##
> >> /var/tmp//ccvYIi4C.o(.text+0x26): In function `main':
> >> : undefined reference to `getline'
> >> ##Error##
> >>
> >> ##Source File##
> >> #include <stdio.h>
> >>
> >> int main() {
> >>         char line[10];
> >>
> >>         getline(&line, 10);
> >>         printf("%s", line);
> >>
> >>         return 0;
> >> }
> >> ## Source File##
> >>
> >> -Tom
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> >
> > I got a bit further by installing the port for getline
> > (/usr/ports/devel/libgetline), and changed the code slightly to provide
> > a single parameter. (Look at man getline)
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <getline.h>
> >
> > int main() {
> >         char line[10]="test";
> >
> >         getline(line);
> >         printf("%s", line);
> >
> >         return 0;
> > }
> >
> > chaucer 29 ~/c $ cc -o getline -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib
> > getline.c -lgetline
> > chaucer 30 ~/c $ getline
> > testnow
> > testchaucer 31 ~/c $
> I also noticed that this code actually doesn't work...I'm not sure why 
> either but it doesn't output what gets typed.  Notice that the 'now' 
> that gets typed isn't echoed below.
> 
> -Tom
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Yes - that's why I said I "got a bit further", not that I had made it
work.  I have never tried to use it before, and would have to experiment
more.

-- 

Mike Jeays
http://ca.geocities.com/mike.jeays@rogers.com




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