Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

[Peter Eisentraut]

Lars J. Aas writes:

> : I would agree, but the GNU standards are pretty clear about this.  I think
> : the idea was that (e.g.)
> :
> : `any_program --version | sed -n '1s/^.* \([^ ][^ ]*\)$/\1/p'`
> :
> : should be able to return something useful with any program of a package.
>
> The GNU coding standards also say that the line directly following the
> version line should be the copyright statements, so neither of the above
> suggestions comply.

Quoth the GCS:

     If you *need* to mention the version numbers of libraries which

(Autoconf is sort of a library...)

     are distributed separately from the package which contains this
     program, you can do so by printing an additional line of version
     info for each library you want to mention.  Use the same format
     for these lines as for the first line.

     Please do not mention all of the libraries that the program uses
     "just for completeness"--that would produce a lot of unhelpful
     clutter.  Please mention library version numbers only if you find
     in practice that they are very important to you in debugging.

     The following line, after the version number line or lines, should
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     be a copyright notice.  If more than one copyright notice is
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     called for, put each on a separate line.

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Peter Eisentraut      address@hidden       http://yi.org/peter-e/