rename(2P) and libPW.a on ISC V3.2 R2.0.2

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Mon Jul 16 07:07:04 AEST 1990


In article <3698 at calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> small at calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Alain PETIT) writes:
>	Hi! I'm trying to use rename(2P) but 'ld' report an undefined
>	symbol "Error" in /lib/libPW.a.  I 'ar t /lib/*.a
>	/usr/lib/*.a', 'nm /lib/*.a /lib/*.o /usr/lib/*.a' and found
>	no entry named 'Error', I check in the new man pages of R2.2
>	and found no (char *) to a old bug in R2.0.2.  Same in
>	release notes.

To use any of the posix environment stuff you need to compile/link your 
program with the -Xp compiler directive (tells it to use posix stuff).

With that, the rename call will compile & link correctly.
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