Re: glob on Windows systems

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Jan-2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 11-Jan-2010, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > 
| > |   glob: does not work properly with backslash directory separator
| > 
| > Instead of modifying the gnulib glob function to handle \\ in
| > filenames, I propose the following patch for Octave.  Could someone
| > who is building on MinGW or with MSVC try this patch and let me know
| > whether it works?  If it does and there are no objections to this
| > solution, I'll apply the changeset.
| 
| I'm getting up-to-date on the build process after some time offline.
| The build for me currently fails when linking octave.dll with
| 
| .libs/liboctave_la-glob-match.o:glob-match.cc:(.text+0x6e8): undefined 
| reference to `glob'
| .libs/liboctave_la-glob-match.o:glob-match.cc:(.text+0x8a5): undefined 
| reference to `globfree
| 
| I believe I read about Tatsuro reporting a similar error and it being 
| resolved, so I'm confused now.
| Looking at the build gnulib archive, I also see that the glob object 
| file does not contain a 'glob' and 'globfree' symbol in the export table.

Is your copy of the gnulib sources up to date?  Does the gnulib glob.h
file have the proper extern "C" wrapper around the function
declarations?

jwe