error_print_progname removed at r13641, but sometimes required

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:26, Rob McMullen wrote:
> Working with current svn, and it looks like error_print_progname was
>
> removed in this revision:
> > r13641 | psm | 2006-01-27 14:28:18 -0500 (Fri, 27 Jan 2006) | 1 line
> >
> > Disabled NULL error_print_progname, useless
>
> but despite it being useless, some programs that check for
> error_at_line implicitly assume that error_print_progname exists and
> then fail on linking.

that's a good thing

you have a few choices:
 - add the symbol back in and have runtime bugs
 - leave the symbol out and have compile bugs
 - implement the symbol properly

of the first two choices, the answer is obvious (and is what we're doing 
now) ... as for the third choice, we take patches ;)
-mike
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