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From:	Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject:	Re: mno_cygwin gcc 3.2
Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:24:35 -0800
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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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