On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:49:22AM -0700, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Derek Buitenhuis > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/07/2012 6:09 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote: > >> And this is required - why? > > > > Libm / math is not A Thing in MSVC and isn't required. > > > > It complains about -lm, but ignores it. > > > > I think this is mostly to shut up a warning. > > Correct. First, link.exe does not use -l<libname> to link in > libraries, it uses lib<name>.lib (similar to how gcc allows you to > specify the full filename of a lib<name>.a static library). Second, > there is no math lib necessary at all. > > The problem with this check is that it tries link.exe -lm test.c, > which succeeds while warning that -lm is a non-existing option. From > then on, it keeps inserting -lm everywhere (and thus causes that > warning ad infinitum). I fix that by trying without -lm before using > -lm.
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