avoid linking main program in linker tests
it's possible that the user has provided a compiler that does not have
any libc to link to, so linking a main program is a bad idea. instead,
generate an empty shared library with no dependencies.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 02aef43..d29d2dc 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@
tryldflag () {
printf "checking whether linker accepts %s... " "$2"
-echo "int main() { return 0; }" > "$tmpc"
-if "$CC" "$2" -o /dev/null "$tmpc" 2>/dev/null ; then
+echo "typedef int x;" > "$tmpc"
+if "$CC" -shared "$2" -o /dev/null "$tmpc" 2>/dev/null ; then
printf "yes\n"
eval "$1=\"\${$1} \$2\""
eval "$1=\${$1# }"