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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: setproctitle support
Date: 26 Jul 1996 17:56:26 GMT
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Charles Reese (reese@chem.duke.edu) wrote:
: I am trying to install the qpop package on my FreeBSD 2.1R system.  The 
: compile fails with an indication: 
: popper.o: Undefined symbol `_setproctitle' referenced from text segment

Typing:

                       man setproctitle

Pressing [ENTER]:

NAME
     setproctitle - set the process title for ps(1)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <libutil.h>

     void
     setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...)

     Link with -lutil on the cc(1) command line.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--- this is what you need