Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help with compiling C program

[Philip S Tellis]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Linux WebMaster wrote:

> try with 'gcc -lm <programname>'
> 

Thanks, it worked.  My question is, why do we have to explicitly tell it
to use the library (and why is the math library called libm.a and not
libmath.a)?


Philip


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