[vlc-devel] [PATCH] build: libcompat fix in case there are no functions to replace

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

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> Since Makefile.am have a hardcoded LDADD to ../compat/libcompat.la things
> goes bad when there is no libcompat.a at all. We solve this by checking
> if LIBOBJS is set by AC_REPLACE_FUNCS and add libcompat via LTLIBCOMPAT.

Adding a dummy empty source file would be far simpler.

<Rant>Personnaly, I found uclibc so ridiculously broken that I never bothered to check. Not so long ago, it defined POSIX features constants for features that it did not implement - never seen such a braindead C run-time.</rant>