On glibc systems, use of copysign() does not require linking with libm. This patch ensures that COPYSIGN_LIBM gets set to empty rather than to -lm.
2010-07-31 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> copysign: Does not require -lm on glibc systems. * modules/copysign (configure.ac): Use gl_MATHFUNC, not gl_COMMON_DOUBLE_MATHFUNC. * m4/mathfunc.m4 (gl_COMMON_DOUBLE_MATHFUNC): Update comments. --- modules/copysign.orig Sat Jul 31 12:08:11 2010 +++ modules/copysign Sat Jul 31 12:06:01 2010 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Depends-on: configure.ac: -gl_COMMON_DOUBLE_MATHFUNC([copysign]) +gl_MATHFUNC([copysign], [double], [(double, double)]) Makefile.am: --- m4/mathfunc.m4.orig Sat Jul 31 12:08:11 2010 +++ m4/mathfunc.m4 Sat Jul 31 12:07:53 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# mathfunc.m4 serial 4 +# mathfunc.m4 serial 5 dnl Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ # It sets FUNC_LIBM to empty or "-lm" accordingly. # FUNC must be one of the following functions, that are present on all systems # and provided by libm on all systems except MacOS X, BeOS, Haiku: -# acos asin atan atan2 cbrt copysign cos cosh erf erfc exp fmod hypot j0 j1 -# jn lgamma log log10 log1p pow remainder sin sinh sqrt tan tanh y0 y1 yn +# acos asin atan atan2 cbrt cos cosh erf erfc exp fmod hypot j0 j1 jn lgamma +# log log10 log1p pow remainder sin sinh sqrt tan tanh y0 y1 yn AC_DEFUN([gl_COMMON_DOUBLE_MATHFUNC], [ @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ dnl gl_MATHFUNC([atan], [double], [(double)]) dnl gl_MATHFUNC([atan2], [double], [(double, double)]) dnl gl_MATHFUNC([cbrt], [double], [(double)]) - dnl gl_MATHFUNC([copysign], [double], [(double, double)]) dnl gl_MATHFUNC([cos], [double], [(double)]) dnl gl_MATHFUNC([cosh], [double], [(double)]) dnl gl_MATHFUNC([erf], [double], [(double)])