Re: gcc can't find termcap library

["Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@pinky.mimosa.org>]

Bruce Perens writes:
-> Bruce:
-> > There is no varargs.h in libc5-dev_5.2.18-9 . Maybe older versions
-> > contain it. 
-> 
-> David:
-> > varargs.h is provided by gcc.
-> 
-> Oops. Never thought of that. Anyway, nothing should use it any longer.

Yeah, well, in a perfect world, nothing would use it.  However,
there's a lot of legacy code out there, and the fact is some of it
does still use varargs. So, while I would strongly discourage the use
of obsolete items like varargs and such, the fact remains, some code
is still written to use them, and if it means that I can compile and
use said programs on my machine with minimal effort, then I will.

-Larry

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