This seems to come up most often regarding the math functions. Which Unix system doesn't require -lm for those math functions?
> man intro (3) comes close in OpenBSD (I did man -k libraries to find it) > > It just seems like if a function requires a special library that > should be mentioned in the function's man page as well as the header > file since it needs both to work. I guess it depends on how surprised > you are that the function isn't built-in. round() at least is > perfectly ordinary in Pascal/Delphi and in Java/Javascript it might be > something like math.round(). > > Alan > > On 6/4/12, Anthony J. Bentley <anthonyjbent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alan Corey writes: > >>They probably aren't broken, looks like I need to link in some library. I > >> > >>get "undefined reference to" when I try to compile/link. Shouldn't this > >>be mentioned in the man page? > > > > FreeBSD has a "Library" section in its man page: > > > > LIBRARY > > Math Library (libm, -lm) > > > > I recall reading on the mandoc mailing lists that OpenBSD man pages do not > > contain this section, but I don't know why that is. > > > > -- > > Anthony J. Bentley > > > > > -- > Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
