[Qemu-devel] linking problem

[Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@neenet.com>]

Hello All,

I am running Mandrake 10.0 and am trying to compile the qemu-0.6.0 
version but keep getting this error:


ar rcs libqemu.a exec.o translate-all.o cpu-exec.o translate.o op.o 
helper.o helper2.o translate-copy.o disas.o  i386-dis.o
gcc  -static -Wl,-T,/home/lonnie/QEMU/qemu-0.6.0/i386-vl.ld  -o 
qemu-fast vl.o osdep.o block.o monitor.o pci.o ide.o ne2000.o pckbd.o 
vga.o sb16.o dma.o oss.o fdc.o mc146818rtc.o serial.o i8259.o i8254.o 
pc.o cirrus_vga.o gdbstub.o sdl.o slirp/cksum.o slirp/if.o 
slirp/ip_icmp.o slirp/ip_input.o slirp/ip_output.o slirp/slirp.o 
slirp/mbuf.o slirp/misc.o slirp/sbuf.o slirp/socket.o slirp/tcp_input.o 
slirp/tcp_output.o slirp/tcp_subr.o slirp/tcp_timer.o slirp/udp.o 
slirp/bootp.o slirp/debug.o libqemu.a  -lm -L/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread 
-lm -ldl -lasound -laudio -lXt -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lutil
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [qemu-fast] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lonnie/QEMU/qemu-0.6.0/i386'
make: *** [all] Error 1

what is the "-lm" library?

thanks,
Lonnie