Missing search.h in /usr/include

Christopher Faylor cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Oct 8 09:11:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:00:19PM +0200, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>Hi,
> I am having problems compiling a set of simple C programs for manipulating
>HTML and XML, html-xml-utils-2.1.tar.gz from W3C [1] .
>The platform I am working on is as follows (result of 'uname -a'):
>     CYGWIN_NT-4.0 GEPC4223 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
>The errors I got are related to
>     include <search.h>
>where search.h is an include file for tsearch, tfind, tdelete, twalk
>which are functions for managing binary search trees [2].  Usually you
>can find it in /usr/include (at least on a Sun Server I am workin on)
>
>I thought these functions where part of standard C library and I am
>wondering why they are not part of cygwin distribution (maybe as part
>of gcc?).

This is a free software project.  So, if something isn't part of the
distribution, the answer is always very simple -- no one has contributed
the something to the project.

cgf

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