From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-patches-return-77405-listarch-gdb-patches=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 19380 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2011 11:37:48 -0000
Received: (qmail 19371 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jan 2011 11:37:48 -0000
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (140.186.70.10)    by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:37:43 +0000
Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69)	(envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>)	id 1PaRgP-0005Ep-7g; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:37:37 -0500
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
In-reply-to: <1294206952-28080-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>	(message from Joel Brobecker on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:55:52 +0400)
Subject: Re: [RFA] New script copyright.py
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
References: <1294206952-28080-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>
Message-Id: <E1PaRgP-0005Ep-7g@fencepost.gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:37:00 -0000
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb-patches.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-patches-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2

> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Wed,  5 Jan 2011 09:55:52 +0400
> 
> We currently have one script called copyright.sh which uses
> the "copyright" script in emacs.  The issue is that script
> does not handle a certain number of files, and expects us
> to update them by hand.  Unfortunately, that list is fairly long:
> 
>         byhand="
>         *.s
>         *.f
>         *.f90
>         *.igen
>         *.ac
>         *.texi
>         *.texinfo
>         *.tex
>         *.defs
>         *.1
>         "
> 
> The purpose of this new script is, first, to automate the update
> of these unhandled files. All of them could be handled automatically,
> except one (sim/ppc/psim.texinfo).  I have also included the handling
> of all Ada files (*.ads, *.adb, and *.gpr) in this script, since
> the emacs script seemed to do fail at line wrapping with at least
> the .gpr file.

(Wearing my Emacs maintenance hat.)  It would be good to report these
problems to the Emacs bug tracker ("M-x report-emacs-bug RET"),
including all the details, like error messages etc.  At least some of
them should be fixable.

TIA