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Re: [RFA/commit] Move GDB to GPLv3 (part 2: configure.ac files)
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:05:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA/commit] Move GDB to GPLv3 (part 2: configure.ac files)
- References: <20070818014633.GL31016@adacore.com>
> 2007-08-17 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> * configure.ac: Switch license to GPLv3.
Checked in.
> (no need to regenerate the configure script, since it's only a comment
> change).
It still looks like regenerating the configure scripts is unnecessary,
in particular in the case of:
> Index: testsuite/configure.ac
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/configure.ac,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -p -r1.6 configure.ac
> --- testsuite/configure.ac 23 Jan 2007 17:11:55 -0000 1.6
> +++ testsuite/configure.ac 17 Aug 2007 23:25:51 -0000
> @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
> #
> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> -# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
> -# any later version.
> +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
> +# (at your option) any later version.
> #
> # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> @@ -15,9 +15,7 @@
> # GNU General Public License for more details.
> #
> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> -# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> -# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
> -# 02111-1307, USA.
> +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>
> AC_PREREQ(2.59)
> AC_INIT(gdb.base)
This part of the configure.ac file gets discarded by "autoconf".
So the resulting configure script after autoconf run are identical.
--
Joel