It's a side effect of the installation process. There is no reason to use it and, frankly, I'm constantly amazed that people try. When do you ever need to use -lc on UNIX? cgf On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:02:35PM -0400, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >> --- "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@ipass.net> wrote: >> > >> > > I have compiled my program with -c -g option's and linked it with libc.a, >> > libm.a,libcygwin.a an librpclib.a and got this error when I start it: >> > > >> > >> > You do not neet to link against libc.a, libcygwin.a is enough. >> --8<-- >>>> This brings up the question of why libc.a is even included in the distribution >> package? Is there a useful purpose for it? Is there documentation as to when >> you might want to use libc.a over libcygwin.a? >>>>I would like to know the answers of your questions too :-) >>Suhaib >>>>> === >> "Earnie Boyd" < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > >> CYGWIN RELATED HELP: >> DOCUMENTATION: < http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/docs.html > >> DLLHELP: < http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ > >> ARCHIVE SEARCH: < http://www.delorie.com/archives/ > OR >> < http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/ > >> _________________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >>>>>> -- >> Want to unsubscribe from this list? >> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com >>>>>>>-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com