From 93e1ac85ffb4947080adcd4699fcccdbcf757fa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas White Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 19:58:51 -0700 Subject: Add Gnulib 'lib' items --- lib/dummy.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 lib/dummy.c (limited to 'lib/dummy.c') diff --git a/lib/dummy.c b/lib/dummy.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f9a2779 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/dummy.c @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +/* 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 . */ + +/* 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 -- cgit v1.2.3