On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:56:02AM -0400, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> > 
> > The programs using libmysqlclient need to link -lm, too, in this case.
> 
> Is there a simple way of finding out what libraries are needed?  Not
> linking libm doesn't cause any kind of linker error.  Hypothetically I
> might need to link several different libraries against something, but there
> appears to be no way to know this. (except by runtime failures)
> Is this a weakness of shared libs, ELF, our ld.elf_so, or what?

It is a weakness of shared libs, as far as I can tell.

You find out what other libraries you need to link by reading the
documentation of the libraries you need directly. If the docs of 
-lmysql-client doesn't tell to link -lm, this hint should be added.

Regards,
	-is
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