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Re: 1.3.2: signgam problem still present in plotutils, gnuplot etc.
- To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn at cygnus dot com>, Frank Wuebbeling <wuebbel at math dot uni-muenster dot de>
- Subject: Re: 1.3.2: signgam problem still present in plotutils, gnuplot etc.
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:21:25 -0400
- Cc: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
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At 12:12 PM 6/14/2001, J. Johnston wrote:
>Frank Wuebbeling wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Newlib changed math.h in January to have an errno-like solution for
> > signgam whereby a function gets
> > > called. Is math.h up to date in the user's Cygwin and is it being
> > included by the source code in
> > > question?
> >
> > Ok. The change to math.h produces my problem, I think. I have a fairly
> > recent system, that has been updated using cygwin's setup last week. I'll
> > try to illustrate my problem. Here's the shortest code I can come up with:
> >
> > #include "math.h"
> > main()
> > {
> > double a=signgam;
> > }
> >
> > Use "cc x.c -lm" to compile it. Works without problems on LINUX, for
> > example. CYGWIN, in the version I have, gives:
> >
> > wuebbel% cc x.c -lm
> > /c/FENSTER/TEMP/ccKdCoNl.o(.text+0xc):x.c: undefined reference to
> > `__signgam'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
>
>Ok, Frank, I know the problem. Add -lc to your compile. The signgam function was placed in the
>libc library, not libm.
>
>-- Jeff J.
For Cygwin, that's not the problem. libm == libc == libcygwin. Since
libcygwin is linked by default, there is no need to specify any of these
really. So the problem and solution is as Frank subsequently describes
it.
> > That's because *my* math.h contains the lines:
> >
> > #ifndef _REENT_ONLY
> > #define signgam (*__signgam())
> > extern int *__signgam _PARAMS((void));
> > #endif /* ! defined (_REENT_ONLY) */
> >
> > ...but __signgam is never defined anywhere in the math library. The posting
> > I referred to recommended replacing the lines in question in math.h by
> >
> > extern __IMPORT struct _reent reent_data;
> > #define signgam reent_data._new._reent._gamma_signgam
> >
> > which solved my problem. If my math.h is old, then for some reason it's not
> > updated by the cygwin setup.
> >
<snip>
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