Re: [CODE][WIN95][Cygnus GNU-Win32]

From: George (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 01/26/99


On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Daniel Koepke wrote:

>> Nathan Roberts wrote:
>
>> //F/circle30bpl14/src/comm.c:1109: undefined reference to `inet_aton'
>> make[1]: *** [../bin/circle] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> BASH.EXE-2.01$
>>
>> Now I have had heaps of advice from people saying to do things like
>> using #include with inet.h in the cygnus folder to several files
>> but I keep getting the same error.
>
>Well, they were all wrong.  As you all should know, a call to an
>unprototyped function generates a warning during the compilation of
>the file containing the call (something along the lines of the
>function being implicitly defined).  This is quite different from

Except CircleMUD will provide a prototype if it didn't find one during the
configure stage.  Not exactly sure how he ended up with the result
of ghost function and no prototype though.

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