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Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:06:24 +0100
From: Rainer Jung <rainer.jung@kippdata.de>
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On 03.01.2009 02:02, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> rjung@apache.org wrote:
>> Author: rjung
>> Date: Fri Jan  2 16:58:11 2009
>> New Revision: 730881
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=730881&view=rev
>> Log:
>> We need to link only ab against libm (because of
>> sqrt()).
>
> Uhm - sure that mod_status and a few others didn't also need this
> on some platforms due to double/float arithmetic (statistics?)

It's always hard to be sure for all platforms, but at least it works on 
Solaris and Linux, and I can't find any libm symbols in mod_status.

The floats there are only used in simple divisions and printf.

As I understand it, Windows builds are not influenced by these changes, 
because they use a separate build apparatus?

Regards,

Rainer