R: [R] Use of libmath.a

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Federico Spinazzi wrote:

> >For example,
> >
> >> cc  -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -lmath test.c    ???
> 
> I guess it should be
> > cc  test.c -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -lmath
> 
> The order specified for object files (libraries are) on the compiler command
> line is IMPORTANT to the linker as it searches for symbols from left to
> right.

Yes, but almost every compiler has the source files last and puts their
compiled objects first in the call to ld. As this was an enquiry about
Solaris, that is certainly what Solaris' cc does.

The problems are

(1) libmath.a is linked against routines in the R executable R.bin,
    so you do need libRmath.a
(2) You need -lm on those systems which use it (including cc on Solaris).

as in my previous answer.

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