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Re: mno_cygwin gcc 3.2

From: Shankar Unni <shankar at cotagesoft dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:24:35 -0800
Subject: Re: mno_cygwin gcc 3.2
References: <004a01c28ff9$7ca211a0$3f9281a4@zav100013> <005601c29000$3eed1600$78d96f83@pomello> <005701c29079$62c4c360$3f9281a4@zav100013> <20021120163256.GC15386@redhat.com>

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.

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Shankar.

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