Hi Jonathan Thanks for your answer. I just needed to know where to look. Best regards David > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 14 November 2013 12:07 > To: David Aldrich > Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: How to fix "‘get_current_dir_name’ was not declared in this scope" > ? > > On 14 November 2013 11:57, David Aldrich wrote: > > Hi > > > > Our application builds fine on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, using gcc 4.6.3. > > > > However, when I attempt to build on Fedora 19, which uses gcc 4.8.2 I see: > > > > g++ -I../../Kernel -Wall -m64 -O3 -c -o FileSystem.o FileSystem.cpp > > FileSystem.cpp: In static member function ‘static std::string > FileSystem::currentDir()’: > > FileSystem.cpp:108:34: error: ‘get_current_dir_name’ was not declared > > in this scope p = get_current_dir_name(); > > > > Please will someone explain how to fix this? > > Declare the function, of course! > > It's declared in <unistd.h> so make sure you include that. > > If you use that function without including <unistd.h> then your code was always > broken, but you got away with it in the past. See the header dependency > changes section of http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/porting_to.html for more details. > > > Click > https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/ue91J159rp!GX2PQPOmvUi5k6UwC8217nDq3J > XqYyXHMltAxjHyTnnsqMfZP2+Q66JsWorzTs4aU8yB5sLY89Q== to report this > email as spam.