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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2004-07-19 20:22:33 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2004-07-19 20:22:33 +0000
commit0df2580e13bb5523b7f5569e9bec1fda9c812677 (patch)
tree1e894c7949ade10736a08824d08547ddbbf1f2de
parenta0b977a430af88ff58d9596a60670936eb7f1d31 (diff)
downloadgnulib-0df2580e13bb5523b7f5569e9bec1fda9c812677.tar.gz
New module 'dummy'.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog8
-rw-r--r--lib/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--lib/dummy.c30
-rw-r--r--modules/dummy17
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f491123ea6..480cd1a418 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2004-07-19 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ * MODULES.html.sh (func_all_modules): Add dummy.
+
+2004-07-16 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
+
+ * modules/dummy: New file.
+
2004-07-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* modules/chown (Files): Add lib/fchown-stub.c, since
diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 2bd26abc8c..11b2daf499 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-07-16 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
+
+ * dummy.c: New file.
+
2004-07-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* backupfile.h: Add extern "C" for C++.
diff --git a/lib/dummy.c b/lib/dummy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd2ca82014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/dummy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* A dummy file, to prevent empty libraries from breaking builds.
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Simon Josefsson
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
+ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, 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
+ Library General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
+ USA. */
+
+/* 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. */
+
+/* This declaration is solely to ensure that after preprocessing
+ this file is never empty. */
+typedef int dummy;
diff --git a/modules/dummy b/modules/dummy
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..773c92057c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/dummy
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Description:
+A dummy file, to make sure the library is non-empty.
+
+Files:
+lib/dummy.c
+
+Depends-on:
+
+configure.ac:
+
+Makefile.am:
+lib_SOURCES += dummy.c
+
+Include:
+
+Maintainer:
+all