__infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling perl)

Wed Aug 16 09:14:00 GMT 2000

On 2000年8月16日 18:57:44 EST, you wrote:
>>From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
>>To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
>>Subject: RE: __infinity defined twice in libcygwin.a and libm.a (Compiling 
>>perl)
>>Date: 2000年8月15日 10:51:50 +0100
>>>>>>Michael Ring wrote:
>> >I just tried to compile perl 5.6.0 (and finally succeeded) but on my
>> >way I had to remove all references to libm.a from the makefiles of
>> >perl because the linker complained that __infinity was defined both in
>> >libm and libcygwin.
>>>>libm.a should be a symlink to libcygwin.a. The -lm that Perl's
>>Configure adds is somewhat of an historic artifact, however at
>>least to date it has never caused any problems.
>>Sound like setup wasn't used.

The problem was that I did not have all 4 patches properly attached.
After I applied all patches everything worked out fine and I am the
happy owner of a freshly compiled perl.
Thanks to all who helped,
Michael Ring
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