[openbeos] Re: joe - haiku ports

> I think it's fixed now.  Have a look at the patch and perhaps try it
> out on a non-haiku system and see if it correctly detects needing -lm
> on that system.  If it does let me know, this might be worth sending
> back upstream.
> http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/app-editors/joe/3.5/1
> It's nice to have joe working on haiku, now i won't have to fight with
> vim to do a check in ;)
> -scottmc

I looked at the diff.  From what I can tell, you remove -lm from the LIBS if 
not present.  Which I believe is incorrect way to do it but I would like 
another dev to say if I am wrong or right.

What I was trying to get at was:
IF Haiku ( or BeOS or Zeta ) & program links to libm
change -lm to -lroot  // because there is no libm in Haiku/BeOS - part of 
libroot
else ( for Linux )
leave it as -lm

Actually, the easiest & quickest way is to symlink libm->libroot so no code 
changes would be needed at all but some devs do not like hacks :- )

I believe devs link to libm in their programs for a reason ( else, why put in 
-lm if not needed?? ) and removing the linking to libm is not the right way to 
do it.  Could cause issues.  That we should link to libroot instead when a 
program wants libm.

Can someone clear this up because maybe I am confused?  If a POSIX program is 
looking for libm should we:
a) just remove -lm ( not link to libm ) or
b) change -lm to -lroot ( to link to libroot instead of libm ) 

From what I can tell, Scott is doing a) and I believe it should be b).  If a), 
then can someone also explain why a program would use -lm if it is not needed.


Regards,

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