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From: michael-ring AT t-online DOT de (Michael Ring)
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: __infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling perl)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:14:55 +0200
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:57:44 EST, you wrote:

>>From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com>
>>To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
>>Subject: RE: __infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling  
>>perl)
>>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:51:50 +0100
>>
>>
>>Michael Ring wrote:
>> >I just tried to compile perl 5.6.0 (and finally succeeded) but on my
>> >way I had to remove all references to libm.a from the makefiles of
>> >perl because the linker complained that __infinity was defined both in
>> >libm and libcygwin.
>>
>>libm.a should be a symlink to libcygwin.a.  The -lm that Perl's
>>Configure adds is somewhat of an historic artifact, however at
>>least to date it has never caused any problems.
>
>Sound like setup wasn't used.

The problem was that I did not have all 4 patches properly attached.

After I applied all patches everything worked out fine and I am the
happy owner of a freshly compiled perl.

Thanks to all who helped,

Michael Ring


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