readline AWOL?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Dog Walker wrote:

>
> I would try doing what it says, i.e., declaring the readline function
> before you use it:
>
>        char *
>        readline (const char *prompt);
>        int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>        {
>                      char *lp;
>                      lp=readline(MAINPROMPT);
>                      return 0;
>        }
>
I think what it says is just the standard way of telling us how the
function is used. For example, "man open" says:
 	NAME
 	       open, creat - open and possibly create a file or device

 	SYNOPSIS
 	       #include <sys/types.h>
 	       #include <sys/stat.h>
 	       #include <fcntl.h>

 	       int open(const char *pathname, int flags);
 	       int open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode);

But you don't copy "int open(const char *pathname, int flags);" to your
program, the "include" does it.
Anyway, I tried it and it's just the same. I believe the FC5 may not be
completely sane, but it works on Gentoo and that's enough.

Jorge Almeida