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Re: Bizarre test for main in libm
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:01:53PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> In article <200305011038.h41AcJm15772@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> you write:
> >
> > Does anyone know why that test is there in the first place?
>
> Mark, mentioned that the patch was sort-a-ugly. Are there any systems
> where there is no -lm? The above test would not link if -lm was not
> found. Correct?
Right. It might just be a semi-convenient way of getting -lm added to
LIBS if-and-only-if libm is available. The theory, I think, is that if
libm is available at all, it's probably also required (for us).
Phil
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