rustc: Add comments about linking to libm

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/rustc/back/link.rs b/src/rustc/back/link.rs
index 62dc467143e..c3e1b4da772 100644
--- a/src/rustc/back/link.rs
+++ b/src/rustc/back/link.rs
@@ -636,7 +636,12 @@ fn link_binary(sess: session,
     // On linux librt and libdl are an indirect dependencies via rustrt,
     // and binutils 2.22+ won't add them automatically
     if sess.targ_cfg.os == session::os_linux {
-        cc_args += ["-lrt", "-ldl", "-lm"];
+        cc_args += ["-lrt", "-ldl"];
+
+        // LLVM implements the `frem` instruction as a call to `fmod`,
+        // which lives in libm. Similar to above, on some linuxes we
+        // have to be explicit about linking to it. See #2510
+        cc_args += ["-lm"];
     }
 
     if sess.targ_cfg.os == session::os_freebsd {