[sane-devel] lib functions and empty files

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:44:11PM +0100, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

> If the function is already available by the system, the source file is
> empty. At least gcc complains about this in "-ansi" mode and even
> aborts compilation on at least one platform (OS/2 with gcc3.x).

If someone got ambitious, the correct way to handle this is
to change the configure script to use AC_REPLACE_FUNCS
instead of AC_CHECK_FUNCS.  Then the makefiles can simply
omit compiling the file if unneeded.

-S

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