Re: getline fallout

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> I'm rebuilding all of my packages on one of my -current machines.  A
> number are failing because of the addition of getline() to stdio.h.

ditto

   mail/alpine
   mail/procmail

what is our policy on fixing these?  I just fixed one by patching the
internal getline -> get_line but I wonder if there is a compiler switch
"don't complain about internal functions obscuring the namespace" or
definition that can be used to good effect..?

iain