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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:59:34 -0700
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
CC: Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: libm.a linking errork
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Thanks, Earnie.  It's been too long since I've done this, and had
forgotten the position dependancy (even tho' I remember seeing it done
correctly recently ;-(

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> 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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