Re: xview

[Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>]

>It produced a lot of problems because of extern definitions of some
>string-functions like strdup. The Compiler said those where macros. Is this
>new and an error in xview or are my libraries too old? I will update my
>system as soon as I get access to our CD-R.

It's xview that should be fixed.  Recent versions of libc define some of 
the string functions as macros for better performance.  In general user 
programs shouldn't be redeclaring or redefining functions from the standard 
library, at least not without checking whether they already exist.

p.