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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:41:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: libm.a linking errork
To: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>, Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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In this case, your use of -lm is in the wrong location on the line.  Your
example builds without complaint when you:
  gcc -o pgm pgm.c -lm
Yes, location of the library switches make a difference.

--- Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com> wrote:
> I remember seeing some posts regarding libm, libc and libcygwin over the
> last few months, but I can't find anything in the archives that refers
> to the error message I'm seeing.  But I did find some questions asked
> about why changing the current handling of the library names should
> change.  Either this is a reason or I have somehow misconfigured things,
> though I can't see where.  So I'm also attaching the output of cygcheck
> -v -r -s below, just in case;)
> 

Cheers,

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