g77 -lm link problem [Re: Results for 2.97 20010115 (experimental) testsuite on i686-pc -cygwin]

Tue Jan 23 19:10:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年1月23日, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:38:56AM -0000, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
>> I guess I was vainly hoping that someone would actually debug the
> problem or offer insight into the reason for the problem rather than
> saying "Just remove -lm! Works for me!"

The problem is that the g77 runtime library (libg2c) contains main, and
internal reordering of libraries by gcc driver causes the problem.
 $ cat libm-bugf.f
 program libm_bug
 write (*,*) 'libm bug'
 stop
 end

Following causes a problem because g77 driver puts -lm before -lg2c
(use -v to see it):
 $ g77 -o libm-bugf.exe libm-bugf.f -lm
 /usr/lib/libm.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x6a):libcmain.c: undefined reference 
 to `WinMain@16' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Following "fixes" the problem now that we know that libg2c must come
beforehand (use -v to see it):
 $ g77 -o libm-bugf.exe libm-bugf.f -lg2c -lm
 $ 
I know the symptom, but don't know the real problem, hence don't know
the solution (yet).
Regards,
Mumit
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