[Q] _ctype not found

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1993 17:28

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I was recently compiling xdvi (the TeX X-windows viewer)
and came up with the load error "_ctype not found".
It seemed to me that one of the X libraries was looking for
the array _ctype[].

I could solve the problem by taking ctype.o out of libc.a
(ar x libc.a ctype.o), and including this in the object files
making up xdvi.

But adding a statement involving islower() to a source file
didn't seem to bring in the _ctype array.

I'm puzzled (1) why _ctype wasn't brought in anyway,
and (2) why the islower() call didn't bring it in.

I'm using gcc-2.4.3 on a Mips Magnum 3000 (running Riscos 4).

Any pointers to enlightenment gratefully received.



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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Subject: [Q] _ctype not found
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Summary: Why isn't _ctype found?
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