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changeset 8421:faaa486649e7
Avoid error with SunPRO C 5.0 on Solaris 2.5.1.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:28:43 +0000 |
parents | baddd6f5c9a3 |
children | f968c473e8b7 |
files | ChangeLog lib/dummy.c |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-03-11 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * lib/dummy.c [__sun]: Define a dummy variable, not just a typedef. + Needed for Solaris 2.5.1 ranlib and SunPRO C 5.0. + 2007-03-11 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * tests/test-stdbool.c (s, d, e, xlcbug): Disable checks that gnulib's
--- a/lib/dummy.c +++ b/lib/dummy.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* A dummy file, to prevent empty libraries from breaking builds. - Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 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 General Public License as published by @@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ 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 dummy; +#else /* This declaration is solely to ensure that after preprocessing this file is never empty. */ typedef int dummy; +#endif