Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:44:13AM +0100, Denis Dupeyron wrote:

>Is there any reason for -lm to be an alias
>of -lcygwin ? I looks rather confusing.

Reason?  Nah, it's all just random guesswork.
Now, now. :-)

He has a valid question: why is "-lm" an alias to -lcygwin, instead of simply being stubbed out with an empty archive? That would allow "-lm" to not have to be special-cased in a library list in Makefiles.

--
Shankar.




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