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Re: I'm probably missing some c headers, but what ?



Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net> writes:

> Oded Arbel writes:
> 
>  > I'm trying to write a c program that uses the crypt function
>  > (char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt) ) but when I try to
>  > compile it, I get these error messages :
>  > /tmp/cca119381.o: In function `passchek':
>  > /tmp/cca119381.o(.text+0x64): undefined reference to `crypt'
>  > /tmp/cca119381.o: In function `passchng':
>  > /tmp/cca119381.o(.text+0x283): undefined reference to `crypt' 
>  > 
>  > I think I should have the relevant source some where around here (I have
>  > the relevant man page, so I figured...) but I couldn't figure out which,
>  > where, what and ..  ahmm... who ?
> 
> The only thing you need to do is add "-lcrypt" to the linking command
> line. In glibc crypt is in its own library.

I wrote earlier that I had found it in libc, but I am on a machine
with libc5 now. Sorry if that was misleading.

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