It is used to store a reference to some data that is already in another ListBase. Sometimes, these are needed for small one-off situations, where a custom struct seems overkill...
(adding)
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif
also the Makefile.in's were from previous patch adding
the system depend stuff to configure.ac
Kent
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