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From: bob@wizard.uucp (Bob Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Problems creating Patch 2.0.12u3
Message-ID: <278@wizard.uucp>
Date: 4 May 91 05:06:33 GMT
References: <44@hlthnt.UUCP>
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In <44@hlthnt.UUCP> sginn@hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn) writes:

>I was recently trying to compile the above named app and everything
>ran fine until it started linking and came up with the following
>problems:

>/bin/ld : error: Unresolved externals:

>_rindex in file(s):
>patch.o (patch.c)

rindex() is a BSD version of strrchr().

You should be able to compile patch by adding a line like:

        #define rindex() strrchr()

somewhere at the beginning of patch.c .

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