From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Subject: RFC: Bug 60749 - Do not need to link against -lm for fabs*() Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:46:18 +0200 Message-ID: <5233415A.90506@bfs.de> Reply-To: wharms-fPG8STNUNVg@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html