Re: dummy: fix for Solaris compiler

[Bruno Haible]

James Youngman wrote:
> On 3/11/07, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> > + #ifdef __sun
> > + /* This declaration ensures that the library will export at least 1 
> > symbol.  */
> > + int dummy;
> > + #else
> [...]
> 
> Could we maybe pick an external symbol name that's less likely to
> clash?

The 'dummy' module is hardly used in practice, because it gets disabled
as soon as you have at least one gnulib module with an unconditional
lib_SOURCES augmentation. But anyway, it doesn't cost much to choose a
different symbol. I applied this:


2007-03-15  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * lib/dummy.c (gl_dummy_symbol): Renamed from 'dummy'.
        Reported by James Youngman <address@hidden>.

--- lib/dummy.c 11 Mar 2007 22:28:43 -0000      1.4
+++ lib/dummy.c 16 Mar 2007 00:52:20 -0000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
 #ifdef __sun
 /* This declaration ensures that the library will export at least 1 symbol.  */
-int dummy;
+int gl_dummy_symbol;
 #else
 /* This declaration is solely to ensure that after preprocessing
    this file is never empty.  */