Re: src ChangeLog configure configure.ac

Re: src ChangeLog configure configure.ac

[Hui Zhu]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:29, Tristan Gingold<gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>
>> Hi Tristan,
>>
>> Sorry to disturb you.
>>
>> -# Copyright (C) 2003, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> I am not very clear about copyright.  Why it doesn't need to set to
>> "2003,2008,2009"?
>
> This file is generated by autoconf so I don't control the copyright dates.
> Feel free to ask on the list, I don't really know what to do.
>


Could some people can help us about this?
Thanks a lot.

Hui

> Tristan.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hui
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 16:24, <gingold@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> CVSROOT:        /cvs/src
>>> Module name:    src
>>> Changes by:     gingold@sourceware.org  2009-07-02 08:24:01
>>>
>>> Modified files:
>>>       .              : ChangeLog configure configure.ac
>>>
>>> Log message:
>>>       2009-07-02  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
>>>
>>>       * configure.ac: Do not exclude gas for i386-*-darwin.
>>>       Add a case for x86_64-*-darwin.
>>>       * configure: Regenerate.
>>>
>>> Patches:
>>>
>>> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.869&r2=1.870
>>>
>>> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/configure.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.321&r2=1.322
>>>
>>> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/configure.ac.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.67&r2=1.68
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

Re: src ChangeLog configure configure.ac

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Hui" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

>>> -# Copyright (C) 2003, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> +# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Hui> Could some people can help us about this?

Probably someone is using a distro-modified autoconf, that has an
updated date.

Everybody ought to use the plain autoconf 2.59 from ftp.gnu.org, to
avoid this kind of generated file churn.  I checked and the unmodified
autoconf only mentions 2003.

Tom

Re: src ChangeLog configure configure.ac

[Michael Snyder]

Hui Zhu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:29, Tristan Gingold<gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tristan,
>>>
>>> Sorry to disturb you.
>>>
>>> -# Copyright (C) 2003, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> +# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>
>>> I am not very clear about copyright.  Why it doesn't need to set to
>>> "2003,2008,2009"?
>> This file is generated by autoconf so I don't control the copyright dates.
>> Feel free to ask on the list, I don't really know what to do.
>>
> 
> 
> Could some people can help us about this?
> Thanks a lot.

Hui,

"configure" is a generated file.  Don't edit it.
Just edit "configure.ac", and then run autoconf
to generate "configure".

And don't worry about the copyright date, in this case
it probably only applies to autoconf itself (not to the
configure files).

Michael

Re: src ChangeLog configure configure.ac

[Hui Zhu]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 01:54, Michael Snyder<msnyder@vmware.com> wrote:
> Hui Zhu wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:29, Tristan Gingold<gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tristan,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to disturb you.
>>>>
>>>> -# Copyright (C) 2003, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>> +# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> I am not very clear about copyright.  Why it doesn't need to set to
>>>> "2003,2008,2009"?
>>>
>>> This file is generated by autoconf so I don't control the copyright
>>> dates.
>>> Feel free to ask on the list, I don't really know what to do.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Could some people can help us about this?
>> Thanks a lot.
>
> Hui,
>
> "configure" is a generated file.  Don't edit it.
> Just edit "configure.ac", and then run autoconf
> to generate "configure".
>
> And don't worry about the copyright date, in this case
> it probably only applies to autoconf itself (not to the
> configure files).
>

I got it.  Thanks Michael.

Hui