Bizarre test for main in libm

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:42:55AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > 
> > 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).
> > 
> 
> Ah.  I get it.  I would have said this was non-obvious enough to warrant a 
> comment, but then I'm not an autoconf expert.

No, this counts as freaky weird.  I've added a comment to my local tree and
will check it in in the short-term future, along with other odds and ends,
assuming nobody else comes up with a better explanation.

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