mno_cygwin gcc 3.2
Shankar Unni
shankar@cotagesoft.com
Wed Nov 20 09:43:00 GMT 2002
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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