Re: gnulib-tool --version

[Eric Blake]

Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> > All fine. (Except that the "gnulib-tool --version" result did not change
> > since we moved from CVS to git. We need to fix this...)
> 
> Done as follows.

And this followup, so that gnulib-cache.m4 and friends also show the correct 
copyright year.  Since func_emit_copyright_notice occurs too late in the file 
for emacs' copyright updating hooks to recognize it, I changed it to be dynamic 
output based on gnulib-tool's copyright rather than hard-coded output, so we 
don't have to make changes again next year.

From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:46:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Bump copyright year in files generated by gnulib-tool.

* gnulib-tool (func_emit_copyright_notice): Extract copyright from
gnulib-tool, rather than hard-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
 ChangeLog   |    4 ++++
 gnulib-tool |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 214c64c..a58f637 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2008-03-14  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
+       Bump copyright year in files generated by gnulib-tool.
+       * gnulib-tool (func_emit_copyright_notice): Extract copyright from
+       gnulib-tool, rather than hard-coding it.
+
        Fix 'gnulib-tool --version' output to work with git.
        * gnulib-tool (func_gnulib_dir): New function, extracted from...
        (startup): ...here.
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 523812b..e7dbe53 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -211,7 +211,10 @@ Written by" "Bruno Haible" "and" "Simon Josefsson"
 # outputs to stdout a header for a generated file.
 func_emit_copyright_notice ()
 {
-  echo "# Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
+  sed -n '/Copyright/ {
+            p
+            q
+          }' < "$self_abspathname"
   echo "#"
   echo "# This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU"
   echo "# General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General"
-- 
1.5.4