Re: [Bug-gnulib] new module: dummy

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Libgsasl only use strdup from gnulib, which already exists on most
> systems, so the gnulib library is typically empty.  Allegedly, the
> linkers on OpenBSD and Mac OS X doesn't like this.  I'm using the
> following module, and people said it worked.

Thanks, I'm adding it to gnulib, with one modification: The message you
get from the linker is about 0 input files, not about 0 symbols which
consume storage. Therefore dummy.c doesn't need to consume storage - a
typedef is enough.

> Btw, is anyone working more on the gnulib-tool, so it can be used to
> copy files into projects?

It had been on my TODO list for a long time, but now I'm busy in other
areas. Feel free to enhance it!

Bruno