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Re: NEdit still crashes


At 06:45 AM 8/11/00 -0400, Suhaib wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
>> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Fleischer,
>> Karsten (K.)
>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 5:20 AM
>> To: 'Sam Reynolds'; Cygwin-Xfree (E-mail)
>> Subject: RE: NEdit still crashes
>>
>>
>> Wow, that's it! I simply did the same thing, moving -lm to the end of the
>> list.
>>
>> Thanks, Sam ;-)
>>
>I did not know that... but you should actually not use
>-lm and -lc at all.  They are just the subs to keep ld and gcc happy..
>the symbols available in libcygwin.a are enough and libcygwin.a
>links by default.
>
>Suhaib

Thanks, Suhaib. You're absolutely right. I removed -lm, and the build works
and the .exe works just fine.

I didn't know what libcygwin.a contained. I'm a newbie to Cygwin and NT.
 
Sam

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