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Re: another baby step - namespace adjustments


On 19-Jul-2003, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > C90 guarantees that the system has a sqrt() function somewhere, but
> > says nothing about the name of the library containing it.
> 
> Perhaps an autoconf test to see if "-lm" works?  That should be
> reliable enough, since it wouldn't depend on functions.  Just "hello.c
> -lm" and see if it complains about not finding -lm.

I think you'd need at least two tests, one for static linking and one
for dynamic linking, because the static version of libm might not be
installed.

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