On 7 September 2011 22:33, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> For crypt() to be declared in <crypt.h>, you need nothing.
But neither crypt(3) nor crypt(3posix) documents accessing crypt via
#include <crypt.h>, which suggests that's a non-standard way to get
the function.
> Note that <config.h> must be the first header file to be included in every
> compilation unit.
Gah, caught out by that one again; thanks.
> Certainly the fact that crypt() is not defined by default could be mentioned
> in doc/posix-functions/crypt.texi.
Patch follows:
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 79d9777..9a64036 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-09-07 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
+
+ crypt: Document that the function is not defined by default in glibc.
+
2011-09-07 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
openat: Work around compilation error with OSF/1 5.1 DTK cc.
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/crypt.texi b/doc/posix-functions/crypt.texi
index b7f1927..7651d3e 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/crypt.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/crypt.texi
@@ -15,4 +15,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, Cygwin, mingw.
+@item
+Crypt is not defined by default on some platforms:
+glibc.
@end itemize
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