I think that it would be quite nice if these things were included in the
man page, as there is a man page.
man sqrt
tells you that you need to #include <maths.h>, but not that you need to
link with the maths library. This can be very frustrating for
beginners,and would be quite easy to include in man pages. Just MHO.
Rich
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:00:25PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_
> > >reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions.
>
> > Try K&R
>
> That's not really part of Debian, though. It *is* documented in the
> comp.lang.c FAQ, but that isn't packaged. I guess what's being looked
> for is more like writing something in the appropriate man pages or what
> have we.
>
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