[Bug-gnulib] Re: new module: dummy

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Ah, right.

>> 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!

I'll look into how difficult it would be to make it do what I need.
If it seems simple, I'll try to get something work.

Thanks,
Simon