Re: sort and -lm

[Bruno Haible]

> > Why would that be a problem? The average run time of a 'sort' invocation 
> > is long enough that an additional link dependency to libm shouldn't matter.
> 
> We've avoided -lm in the past, I think more to avoid the dependency.

You could alternatively link with libm.a instead of -lm. This won't increase
the startup time of 'sort'.

Bruno