[MPlayer-users] Cygwin build problem

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:38:04PM +0200, Barry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When building MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 on cygwin I get a failure due to a
> clash of names between the getline() functions in vobsub.c and the
> version defined in stdio.h. Changing the name of the function in
> vobsub.c allows the build to continue OK. I don't know whether something
> needs to be changed in the config or whether changing the name in
> vobsub.c to getline2() is the best solution, but it's certainly one fix.

Someone should flame the cygwin idiots for adding nonstandard crap
with common names (like getline) to stdio.h!

Rich