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some m4 portability stuff for better shared libaray support

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1# stdarg.m4 serial 3
2dnl Copyright (C) 2006, 2008-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
4dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
5dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
6
7dnl From Bruno Haible.
8dnl Provide a working va_copy in combination with <stdarg.h>.
9
10AC_DEFUN([gl_STDARG_H],
11[
12  STDARG_H='';                AC_SUBST([STDARG_H])
13  NEXT_STDARG_H='<stdarg.h>'; AC_SUBST([NEXT_STDARG_H])
14  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for va_copy])
15  AC_CACHE_VAL([gl_cv_func_va_copy], [
16    AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdarg.h>], [
17#ifndef va_copy
18void (*func) (va_list, va_list) = va_copy;
19#endif
20],
21      [gl_cv_func_va_copy=yes], [gl_cv_func_va_copy=no])])
22  AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_func_va_copy])
23  if test $gl_cv_func_va_copy = no; then
24    dnl Provide a substitute.
25    dnl Usually a simple definition in <config.h> is enough. Not so on AIX 5
26    dnl with some versions of the /usr/vac/bin/cc compiler. It has an <stdarg.h>
27    dnl which does '#undef va_copy', leading to a missing va_copy symbol. For
28    dnl this platform, we use an <stdarg.h> substitute. But we cannot use this
29    dnl approach on other platforms, because <stdarg.h> often defines only
30    dnl preprocessor macros and gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER, gl_CHECK_NEXT_HEADERS do
31    dnl not work in this situation.
32    AC_EGREP_CPP([vaccine],
33      [#if defined _AIX && !defined __GNUC__
34        AIX vaccine
35       #endif
36      ], [gl_aixcc=yes], [gl_aixcc=no])
37    if test $gl_aixcc = yes; then
38      dnl Provide a substitute <stdarg.h> file.
39      STDARG_H=stdarg.h
40      gl_CHECK_NEXT_HEADERS([stdarg.h])
41      dnl Fallback for the case when <stdarg.h> contains only macro definitions.
42      if test "$gl_cv_next_stdarg_h" = '""'; then
43        gl_cv_next_stdarg_h='"///usr/include/stdarg.h"'
44        NEXT_STDARG_H="$gl_cv_next_stdarg_h"
45      fi
46    else
47      dnl Provide a substitute in <config.h>, either __va_copy or as a simple
48      dnl assignment.
49      gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT([gl_cv_func___va_copy], [
50        AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdarg.h>], [
51#ifndef __va_copy
52error, bail out
53#endif
54],
55          [gl_cv_func___va_copy=yes], [gl_cv_func___va_copy=no])])
56      if test $gl_cv_func___va_copy = yes; then
57        AC_DEFINE([va_copy], [__va_copy],
58          [Define as a macro for copying va_list variables.])
59      else
60        AH_VERBATIM([gl_VA_COPY], [/* A replacement for va_copy, if needed.  */
61#define gl_va_copy(a,b) ((a) = (b))])
62        AC_DEFINE([va_copy], [gl_va_copy],
63          [Define as a macro for copying va_list variables.])
64      fi
65    fi
66  fi
67])
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