From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12824 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2006 20:31:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 12813 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2006 20:31:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:30:56 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F81OQ-0007Cq-6t for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:30:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:31:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Copyright notices Message-ID: <20060211203054.GA27674@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20060211190743.GA26374@nevyn.them.org> <20060211192051.GA4207@brasko.net> <20060211143620.GA20537@nevyn.them.org> <20060211182727.GA25041@nevyn.them.org> <20060211190743.GA26374@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060211192051.GA4207@brasko.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:18:03PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:07:44 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > Well, what I'd do would be shell-script the above: have a script print > > out a list of files, and remove certain others, based on a manually > > defined list. > > If the exclude list is manually defined, Emacs could use it directly. OK. I don't know the first thing about Emacs scripting :-) So I think I'll defer to you on this... > > (That could just be one big invocation of GNU "find"). > > Emacs already has a command to run `find' and present the results in a > Dired-style buffer. Gotcha. > > Of course, there will still be a list of places that need to be > > updated by hand (including gdbarch.sh and the texinfo manuals, > > probably). > > What is special about Texinfo files? The fact that Copyright appears > there in several different places? or did you mean something else? Right; I just figured that the in-text copyrights would have to be updated by hand even if we auto-updated the one at the top of the file. Maybe that's not right. On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:20:51PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > Of course, instead, you could use grep to look for files that 'find' > produced and search for "Copyright (C)" to know what files should be > updated. That way, you don't have to store a list of files that needs to > be maintained. No, you want to have an exclusion list rather than inclusion - you don't want to manually futz with the copyright header in an autoconf-generated script, for instance. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery