libvirt/gnulib/lib/dummy.c
Richard W.M. Jones 532759a593 Fri Dec 7 14:27:00 UTC 2007 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
* bootstrap, Makefile.am, gnulib/*: Import more gnulib
	  modules for use by MinGW Windows port.
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/* A dummy file, to prevent empty libraries from breaking builds.
Copyright (C) 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser 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