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+/* A dummy file, to prevent empty libraries from breaking builds.
+   Copyright (C) 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* Some systems, reportedly OpenBSD and Mac OS X, refuse to create
+   libraries without any object files.  You might get an error like:
+
+   > ar cru .libs/libgl.a
+   > ar: no archive members specified
+
+   Compiling this file, and adding its object file to the library, will
+   prevent the library from being empty.  */
+
+/* Some systems, such as Solaris with cc 5.0, refuse to work with libraries
+   that don't export any symbol.  You might get an error like:
+
+   > cc ... libgnu.a
+   > ild: (bad file) garbled symbol table in archive ../gllib/libgnu.a
+
+   Compiling this file, and adding its object file to the library, will
+   prevent the library from exporting no symbols.  */
+
+#ifdef __sun
+/* This declaration ensures that the library will export at least 1 symbol.  */
+int gl_dummy_symbol;
+#else
+/* This declaration is solely to ensure that after preprocessing
+   this file is never empty.  */
+typedef int dummy;
+#endif