On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 10:42:35 +0200 Roi Dayan <r...@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > > I think that just adding an unnecessary -lm is more of a tidiness issue > > than anything else. One way to avoid it is to split the -lm deps out > > from util.c / json_print.c to like util_math.c / json_print_math.c. That > > way they will be in an .o of their own, and won't be linked in unless > > the binary in question needs the code. Then the binaries that do call it > > can keep on linking in -lm like they did so far. > > > > Thoughts? > >
Adding -lm to just some tools is not really required. The linker will ignore the shared library if not used.