Re: Newbie questions... (crypt())

[hjl at ocean dot lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> 
> On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
> > RedHat 5.1 uses glibc.  crypt is moved outside libc and now you
> > have to add -lcrypt to your linking process (in order to link
> > with /usr/lib/libcrypt.so -> ../../lib/libcrypt.so.1).
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Carlo Wood  <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>
> 
> I tried that.  It still won't compile without me adding:
> 
> extern char* crypt(const char* key, const char* salt);
> 
> to the top of each file that uses crypt (in other words, the #include
> doesn't work right..)  After adding that, the code compiles to object
> code, but the linking still fails, even after adding the -lcrypt.  Note
> that I get no errors indicating that it couldn't find the crypt
> library.
> 
> I would imagine there is something wrong with they way I'm trying to
> include.  Since the man page neglected to tell about the -lcrypt, it
> may be wrong in other ways as well.
> 
> Does anyone have any working (example) code using crypt?  Also, could
> someone point me to some official repository of the man pages for glibc?

Yes, login, pine, .... Post a small testcase. I will a take a look.

H.J.