Re: sort and -lm

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-10-06 19:33, Bruno Haible wrote:
> 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.

> If you really want to minimize the startup time, you could load the libcrypto,
> needed for the option '--random', using dlopen() ? I wouldn't advocate it as
> a solution on all platforms, since libltdl surely has its own set of
> portability problems. But guarded by a '#ifdef __GLIBC__', why not?

Yes, that sounds like it might be a win too. I hadn't noticed the 
dependency on libcrypto (and libz).