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From: walter harms <wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: RFC: Bug 60749 - Do not need to link against -lm for fabs*()
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:46:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5233415A.90506@bfs.de> (raw)

hi list,
i was investigating this and the good news it that you still need a libm.
On the other side the reporter is right he does not need to specify that.
Obviously this depends on the linker script used.

The math man pages say: "Link with -lm".
Perhaps it is better to say 'You may need to Link with -lm".

any comments on that ?

re,
 wh
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 16:46 walter harms [this message]
     [not found] ` <5233415A.90506-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-13 18:20   ` RFC: Bug 60749 - Do not need to link against -lm for fabs*() Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]     ` <CAKgNAkiy54SbGEt6KQ2a87SQejoyuzcTvDbVK8aAQXd==yNNvg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-14 12:05       ` walter harms
     [not found]         ` <5234511C.7030500-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-16 14:57           ` walter harms
     [not found]             ` <52371C48.7040404-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 13:25               ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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