Re: libpgeasy symbol conflicts with libc ... libpgeasy loses

> I had some trouble running findoidjoins today, which I eventually
> tracked down to the fact that where it thinks it's calling libpgeasy's
> fetch() subroutine, it was actually getting bound to the DBM library's
> fetch() routine, which is in libc on my platform ... and the Makefile
> for findoidjoins does -lc before -lpgeasy.
>
> I counsel picking a less-generic name for libpgeasy's function.
> We could fix this particular lossage with Makefile tweaking,
> but this program won't be the last one to get burnt if you stick
> with the conflicting name.
>
> You might also want to check for conflicts against the other
> functions exported by <dbm.h>:

It is even worse here. Why do I have main defined twice. Looks like
-lln, but that is used in other compiles ok. And it finds none of the
libpgeasy functions. Real strange.

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